Wednesday, October 15, 2014

Teacher

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"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

"Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson."
-- Vernon Law

"Experience is a hard teacher. She gives the test first and the lessons afterwards."
-- Anonymous

"Experience is a dear teacher, but fools will learn at no other."
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)

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

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


"Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers."
-- Socrates (470-399 B.C.)

"Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils."
-- Hector Louis Berlioz

"The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards."
-- Anatole France

"Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition."
-- Jacques Barzun

"It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates the minds of those who control the teaching of the young."
-- Bertrand Russell (1872-1970)

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

"We spend the first twelve months of our children's lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve telling them to sit down and shut up."
-- Phyllis Diller

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