Teachers quotes

View Quote William Shakespeare, King Lear (1608), Act II, scene 4, line 67.

View Quote William Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew (c. 1593-94), Act I, scene 1, line 94.

View Quote William Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew (c. 1593-94), Act II, scene 1, line 55.

View Quote William Shenstone, The School Mistress, Stanza 28.

View Quote You cannot teach old dogs new tricks.

View Quote You seemed to be listening to me, not to find out useful information, but to try to catch me in a logical fallacy. This tells us all that you are used to being smarter than your teachers, and that you listen to them in order to catch them making mistakes and prove how smart you are to the other students. This is such a pointless, stupid way of listening to teachers that it is clear you are going to waste months of our time before you finally catch on that the only transaction that matters is a transfer of useful information from adults who possess it to children who do not, and that catching mistakes is a criminal misuse of time.

View Quote [A good teacher] brings knowledge and his pupil into a vital relationship; and the object of teaching is to establish that relationship on an intelligible basis. This can only be done ... by appealing to two qualities which are at the bottom of all knowledge, curiosity and observation. They are born with us, every child naturally develops them, and it is the duty of the teacher to direct them to proper ends.

View Quote [T]eachers have to be involved in the community and connected with parents and others who shape the lives of young people. They have to be involved with a whole range of people. They have to bring people together. They have to make sure that students in some way find that the work that they’re doing has something to do with their lives and matters.