Teachers Quotes Page 2

Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.

If we teach today’s students as we taught yesterday’s, we rob them of tomorrow.

Differentiation is simply a teacher attending to the learning needs of a particular student or small groups of students, rather than teaching a class as though all individuals in it were basically alike.

The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.

Make failure your teacher, not your undertaker.

Students do not need to be labeled or measured any more than they are.

They don't need more Federal funds, grants, and gimmicks. What they need from us is common sense, dedication, and bright, energetic teachers who believe that all children are achievers and who take personally the failure of any one child.

I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.

Great teachers engineer learning experiences that put students in the driver's seat and then get out of the way.

The chief cause of human errors is to be found in the prejudices picked up in childhood.

Success is its own reward, but failure is a great teacher too, and not to be feared.

When one reaches out to help another he touches the face of God.

Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is important.

We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading. Knowing the contents of a few works of literature is a trivial achievement. Being inclined to go on reading is a great achievement.

The hardest conviction to get into the mind of a beginner is that the education upon which he is engaged is not a college course, not a medical course, but a life course, for which the work of a few years under teachers is but a preparation.

The path of descent is the path of transformation.

Darkness, failure, relapse, death, and woundedness are our primary teachers, rather than ideas or doctrines.

In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher

Peace is within oneself to be found in the same place as agitation and suffering. It is not found in a forest or on a hilltop, nor is it given by a teacher. Where you experience suffering, you can also find freedom from suffering. Trying to run away from suffering is actually to run toward it.

Imparting education not only enlightens the receiver, but also broadens the giver - the teachers, the parents, the friends.

A teacher in a differentiated classroom does not classify herself as someone who ‘already differentiates instruction.’ Rather that teacher is fully aware that every hour of teaching, every day in the classroom can reveal one more way to make the classroom a better match for its learners.

A wise teacher makes learning a joy.

Don't try to fix the students, fix ourselves first.

The good teacher makes the poor student good and the good student superior. When our students fail, we, as teachers, too, have failed.

The word of God is our only standard, and the Holy Spirit our only teacher.

When you learn, teach, when you get, give.

A good teacher is like a candle - it consumes itself to light the way for others.

Don't let anyone tell you that standardized tests are not accurate measures.

The truth of the matter is they offer a remarkably precise method for gauging the size of the houses near the school where the test was administered.

Education must begin with the solution of the teacher-student contradiction, by reconciling the poles of the contradiction so that both are simultaneously teachers and students.

Do your practice and all is coming.

Your best teacher is your last mistake.

I don't want people who want to dance; I want people who have to dance.

A teacher can never truly teach unless he is still learning himself.

A lamp can never light another lamp unless it continues to burn its own flame. The teacher who has come to the end of his subject, who has no living traffic with his knowledge but merely repeats his lesson to his students, can only load their minds, he cannot quicken them.

If we learn to open our hearts, anyone, including the people who drive us crazy, can be our teacher.

The past will be your teacher if you learn from it; your master if you live in it.

Life always gives us exactly the teacher we need at every moment.

This includes every mosquito, every misfortune, every red light, every traffic jam, every obnoxious supervisor (or employee), every illness, every loss, every moment of joy or depression, every addiction, every piece of garbage, every breath. Every moment is the guru.

Music can change the world.

Learning is never done without errors and defeat.

Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose.

Words have a magical power. They can bring either the greatest happiness or deepest despair; they can transfer knowledge from teacher to student; words enable the orator to sway his audience and dictate its decisions. Words are capable of arousing the strongest emotions and prompting all men's actions.

An ounce of behavior is worth a pound of words.

You see, no one can teach anybody. The teacher spoils everything by thinking that he is teaching. Thus Vedanta says that within man is all knowledge-even in a boy it is so-and it requires only an awakening, and that much is the work of a teacher.

The best teachers are those who show you where to look, but don't tell you what to see.

Education, you know, means broadening, advancing;

and if you limit a teacher to only one side of anything, the whole country will eventually have only one thought, be one individual. I believe in teaching every aspect of every problem or theory.

One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.

Teachers are expected to reach unattainable goals with inadequate tools.

The miracle is that at times they accomplish this impossible task.

The best teachers are those who show you where yo look, but don't tell you what to see.

True teachers are those who use themselves as bridges over which they invite their students to cross; then, having facilitated their crossing, joyfully collapse, encouraging them to create their own.

One child, one teacher, one book and one pen can change the world.