Quotes about Teaching

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

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

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

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 Unknown

A teacher who can arouse a feeling for one single good action, for one single good poem, accomplishes more than he who fills our memory with rows and rows of natural objects, classified with name and form. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them become what they are capable of becoming. Goethe

Once children learn how to learn, nothing is going to narrow their mind. The essence of teaching is to make learning contagious, to have one idea spark another. Marva Collins

They may forget what you said but they will never forget how you made them feel. Carol Buchner

I think a hero is an ordinary individual who finds strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles. Christopher Reeve

If a seed of a lettuce will not grow, we do not blame the lettuce. Instead, the fault lies with us for not having nourished the seed properly. Buddhist Saying