Quotation on Teachers 1

Quotations are sayings or excerpts quoted from books, speeches etc. to make a point. I've collected a number of these quotes about teachers from this source (http://www.quotegarden.com/teachers.html) and I hope you'll enjoy them as much as I did. I particularly like quotations 1, 7 , 8, 9, 10. They strike me because they inspire me to be a great educator rather than to be just an ordinary teacher. They tell me that as a teacher, I can make a difference in my students' life. This will be my first instalment.


Quotations About Teachers

1
I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.
~Lily Tomlin as "Edith Ann"

2
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

3
In teaching you cannot see the fruit of a day's work. It is invisible and remains so, maybe for twenty years. ~Jacques Barzun

4
Teaching is the profession that teaches all the other professions. ~Author Unknown

5
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

6
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

7
A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary. ~Thomas Carruthers

8
Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater. ~Gail Godwin

9
A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron. ~Horace Mann

10
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