To teach is to learn twice.
~ Joseph Joubert
The authority of those who profess to teach is often a positive hindrance to those who desire to learn.
~ Cicero
Teaching is not a lost art but the regard for it is a lost tradition.
~ Jacques Barzun
A high-school teacher after all is a person deputized by the rest of us to explain to the young what sort of world they are living in and to defend if possible the part their elders are playing in it.
~ Entile Capouya
He who can does. He who can't teaches.
~ George Bernard Shaw
Nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
~ Oscar Wilde
I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
~ Chinese Proverb
The secret of teaching is to appear to have known all your life what you learned this afternoon.
~ Anonymous
No man can reveal to you aught but that which already lies half asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.
~ Kahlil Gibran
The first duty of a lecturer- to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up between the pages of your notebooks and keep on the mantelpiece for ever.
~ Virginia Woolf
We teach what we need to learn and write what we need to know.
~ Gloria Steinem
Students rarely disappoint teachers who assure them in advance that they are doomed to failure.
~ Sidney Hook
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
Everyone who remembers his own education remembers teachers, not methods and techniques. The teacher is the heart of the educational system.
Teachers can change lives with just the right mix of chalk and challenges.
~ Joyce Meyer
Those who know how to think need no teachers.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Let's reintroduce corporal punishment in the schools - and use it on the teachers.
~ P. J. O'rourke
I had a terrible education. I attended a school for emotionally disturbed teachers.
~ Woody Allen
I'm lucky I had some teachers who saw something in me.
~ Ann Bancroft
I didn't really want to be a teacher, but there was nothing else I could be. Most of those who went to the university became teachers. It was just the racial restriction on Africans.
~ Oliver Tambo
I would suggest that teachers show their students concrete examples of the negative effects of the actions that gangsta rappers glorify.
~ Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
David Levi is a teacher as well as a chef, and, like most teachers, he loves to talk.
~ Kate Christensen
When I was a teacher, teachers would come into my classroom and admire my desk on which lay nothing whatever, whereas theirs were heaped with papers and books.
~ Norman Maccaig
There is a shortage of teachers but the January 2001 schools census showed that teacher numbers were at their highest level than at any time since 1984 - and 11,000 higher than 1997.
~ Estelle Morris
As a student I learned from wonderful teachers and ever since then I've thought everyone is a teacher.
~ Bill Moyers
I am deeply concerned with the diminution of the teaching strength of the country as a result of the disproportionately low salaries that are paid to teachers throughout the country.
~ Bainbridge Colby
I've always admired teachers for their patience and purpose in choosing their profession.
~ Eve Arden
Teachers are not supposed to be repositories of information which they dish out. That is from an age when there were no other repositories of information, other than books or teachers, neither of which were portable. A lot of my big task is retraining these teachers.
~ Sugata Mitra
Jesus does not give recipes that show the way to God as other teachers of religion do. He is himself the way.
~ Karl Barth
Teachers are not glorified babysitters with summers off. Their profession fuels all others, and on a normal day that is amazing enough in and of itself.
~ Lz Granderson
The big shift in approach on education that we are taking - which is different from what happened before - is that we trust teachers and we trust heads.
~ Michael Gove
Teachers need to feel they are trusted. They must be allowed some leeway to use their imagination; otherwise, teaching loses all sense of wonder and excitement.
~ Alan Bennett
Charter schools are public schools that operate, to a certain extent, outside the system. They have more control over their teachers, curriculum and resources. They also have less money than public schools.
~ Maggie Gallagher
I am a big believer in education, because when I grew up in Austria - when I grew up in Austria I had a great education. I had great teachers.
~ Arnold Schwarzenegger
Education must begin with the solution of the student-teacher contradiction, by reconciling the poles of the contradiction so that both are simultaneously teachers and students.
~ Paulo Freire
I do not see any reason why they should not be given the means to give their teachers just as high an education as is secured by attendance at the Protestant schools.
~ Charles Tupper
Few have been taught to any purpose who have not been their own teachers.
~ Joshua Reynolds
