Teachers quotes

View Quote Instruction does not prevent waste of time or mistakes; and mistakes themselves are often the best teachers of all.

View Quote Instruction enlarges the natural powers of the mind.

View Quote Isocrates, Ad Dæmoni****. Inscribed in golden letters over his school, according to Roger Ascham, in his Schoolmaster.

View Quote It is always the teacher who must learn the most … or else nothing real has happened in the exchange.

View Quote It is lawful to be taught by an enemy.

View Quote It is the capitalist class that pays you, that feeds you, that puts the very clothes on your backs that you are wearing tonight. And in return you preach to your employers the brands of metaphysics that are especially acceptable to them; and the especially acceptable brands are acceptable because they do not menace the established order of society. ... You are sincere. You preach what you believe. There lies your strength and your value—to the capitalist class. But should you change your belief to something that menaces the established order, your preaching would be unacceptable to your employers, and you would be discharged. ... Your hands are soft with the work others have performed for you. Your stomachs are round with the plenitude of eating. ... And your minds are filled with doctrines that are buttresses of the established order. You are as much mercenaries (sincere mercenaries, I grant) as were the men of the Swiss Guard.

View Quote It turns out that teaching is one of those things like raising a kid or working out—sometimes amazing, often difficult and painful, but, in hindsight, amazing.

View Quote Jack London, Ernest Everhard addressing a group of teachers, in The Iron Heel (1908), Chapter 1

View Quote James Anthony Froude, Short Studies on Great Subjects, Education.

View Quote James Thomson, The Seasons, Spring (1728), line 1,150.

View Quote Jay L. Lemke, "Teaching all the languages of science: Words, symbols, images, and actions." Conference on Science Education in Barcelona. 1998.

View Quote Jeffrey Glanz, Teaching 101: Classroom Strategies for the Beginning Teacher (2004), p. 131

View Quote Jeffrey Glanz, Teaching 101: Classroom Strategies for the Beginning Teacher (2004), p. 33

View Quote Job, XII. 8.

View Quote Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre, Teil 1, Buch 7, Kapitel 9