93 quotes found
“Let your ego grow enough to teach but not enough to dictate.”
“A classroom is like a Greenhouse where the teacher must provide essential amenities like knowledge and life-skill with patience and empathy, control temperatures and provide adequate ventilation to...”
“Teaching is not about how we see things, it is about how children see things.”
“I think the teaching profession contributes more to the future of our society than any other single profession.”
“To enter a room is to move from one environment to another and that, for the teenager, can be traumatic. There be dragons, daily horrors from acne to zit.”
“I am teaching. Storytelling is teaching.”
“You can't teach in a vacuum. A good teacher relates the material to real life. You understand that, don't you?”
“Teaching is bringing the news.”
“Nobody ever told them they had a right to an opinion.”
“There's something hostile about the way they enter and leave the room that tells you what they think of you. It could be your imagination and you try to figure out what will bring them over to your...”
“I never thought I'd be a teacher , but when I started doing it, I fell in love with it.”
“Teaching Career does not begin with the completion of graduation and post graduation and attaining a degree it begins the moment one starts caring about learners.”
“Didn't care if I wasn't paid for working after school for seven months teaching a 9th grader to read, but when he finally could, priceless! The best times in my life were when I went way beyond my ...”
“My first day of teaching, I got hit in the head with a bandstand & needed 4 stitches. Welcome to #NYCity teaching in the 90s.”
“But for all of them, regardless of their ability, the responsibility of their education falls to the teacher. And who can fulfill that for every single child? What teacher is capable of that?”
“There is apparently an easy test to distinguish good schoolteachers from poor ones; ask them what they teach. Poor ones reply, 'I teach French,' or 'I teach physics' or whatever their subject is. G...”
“Time teaches all things to him who lives forever but I have not the luxury of eternity.”
“grades really cover up failure to teach.”
“One of the hardest things for a teacher is to know when to keep quiet and when to let go. It is a terrible thing to hold someone back from success, or to insist on sharing credit, or to tie someone...”
“Teach men how to fish, but also teach them how to preserve fish.”
