I Am Teacher- Collections of Quotes

I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to
think about besides homework. ~Lily Tomlin as "Edith Ann"



The dream begins with a teacher who believes in you, who
tugs and pushes and leads you to the next plateau, sometimes poking you with a
sharp stick called "truth." ~Dan Rather



In teaching you cannot see the fruit of a day's work. It
is invisible and remains so, maybe for twenty years. ~Jacques
Barzun



Teaching is the profession that teaches all the other
professions. ~Author Unknown



If a doctor, lawyer, or dentist had 40 people in his
office at one time, all of whom had different needs, and some of whom didn't
want to be there and were causing trouble, and the doctor, lawyer, or dentist,
without assistance, had to treat them all with professional excellence for nine
months, then he might have some conception of the classroom teacher's job.
~Donald D. Quinn



Modern cynics and skeptics... see no harm in paying
those to whom they entrust the minds of their children a smaller wage than is
paid to those to whom they entrust the care of their plumbing. ~John F.
Kennedy



A teacher is one who makes himself progressively
unnecessary. ~Thomas Carruthers



Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and
three-fourths theater. ~Gail Godwin



A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring
the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron. ~Horace
Mann



Most teachers have little control over school policy or
curriculum or choice of texts or special placement of students, but most have a
great deal of autonomy inside the classroom. To a degree shared by only a few
other occupations, such as police work, public education rests precariously on
the skill and virtue of the people at the bottom of the institutional pyramid.
~Tracy Kidder



A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his
influence stops. ~Henry Brooks Adams



A good teacher is like a candle - it consumes itself to
light the way for others. ~Author UnknownLeave it to
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The true teacher defends his pupils against his own
personal influence. He inspires self-distrust. He guides their eyes from himself
to the spirit that quickens him. He will have no disciple. ~Amos Bronson
Alcott



A good teacher is a master of simplification and an
enemy of simplism. ~Louis A. Berman



We expect teachers to handle teenage pregnancy,
substance abuse, and the failings of the family. Then we expect them to educate
our children. ~John Sculley



Good teachers are costly, but bad teachers cost more.
~Bob Talbert



The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.
The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires. ~William Arthur
Ward



The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than
dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself. ~Edward
Bulwer-Lytton



A teacher's purpose is not to create students in his own
image, but to develop students who can create their own image. ~Author
Unknown



What the teacher is, is more important than what he
teaches. ~Karl Menninger



Teaching should be full of ideas instead of stuffed with
facts. ~Author Unknown



A cross-eyed teacher can keep twice the number of
children in order than any other, because the pupils do not know who she's
looking at. ~Four Hundred Laughs: Or, Fun Without Vulgarity, compiled and edited
by John R. Kemble, 1902Teaching is leaving a vestige of one self in the
development of another. And surely the student is a bank where you can deposit
your most precious treasures. ~Eugene P. Bertin