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Albert Einstein
It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.
Alexander the Great
I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.
Alice Wellington Rollins
The test of a good teacher is not how many questions he can ask his pupils that they will answer readily, but how many questions he inspires them to ask him which he finds it hard to answer.
Allan Bloom
There is no real teacher who in practice does not believe in the existence of the soul, or in a magic that acts on it through speech.
Amos Bronson Alcott
The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-distrust. He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him. He will have no disciple.
Amy Tan
My mother would say it is literally ghost writers who come to me (Tan is the author of what became The Joy Luck Club).
Anatole France
The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
Author Unknown
Teaching is the profession that teaches all the other professions.
Author Unknown
A good teacher is like a candle - it consumes itself to light the way for others.
Author Unknown
A teacher's purpose is not to create students in his own image, but to develop students who can create their own image.
Author Unknown
Teaching should be full of ideas instead of stuffed with facts.
Author Unknown
Teachers who inspire know that teaching is like cultivating a garden, and those who would have nothing to do with thorns must never attempt to gather flowers.
Author Unknown
Teachers who inspire realize there will always be rocks in the road ahead of us. They will be stumbling blocks or stepping stones; it all depends on how we use them.
Author Unknown
The best teachers teach from the heart, not from the book.
Author Unknown
Often, when I am reading a good book, I stop and thank my teacher. That is, I used to, until she got an unlisted number.
Author Unknown
There are three good reasons to be a teacher - June, July, and August.
Author Unknown
The secret of teaching is to appear to have known all your life what you just learned this morning.
Barbara Colorose
If kids come to us [educators/teachers] from strong, healthy functioning families, it makes our job easier. If they do not come to us from strong, healthy, functioning families, it makes our job more important.
Ben Jonson
Very few men are wise by their own council, or learned by their own teaching. For he that was only taught by himself, had a fool for a master.
Bertrand Russell Education and the Good Life
More important than the curriculum is the question of the methods of teaching and the spirit in which the teaching is given.
 
 
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