Life is amazing: and the teacher had better prepare himself to be a medium for that amazement. - Edward Blishen
More than half the work of teaching is that of helping the child to gain a full and clear expression of what it already knows imperfectly. It is to aid him to lift up into full sight, and to round out into plain and adequate sentences, the dim and fragmentary ideas and perceptions of childhood. - John Milton Gregory
Most of us end up with no more than five or six people who remember us. Teachers have thousands of people who remember them for the rest of their lives. - Andy Rooney
No man can instruct more than half-a-dozen students at once. The whole problem of education is one of its cost in money. - Henry Adams
None can teach admirably if not loving his task. - Amos Bronson Alcott
One good teacher in a lifetime may sometimes change a delinquent into a solid citizen. - Philip Wylie
One repays a teacher badly if one remains always only a student. - Friedrich Nietzsche
People cited violation of the First Amendment when a New Jersey schoolteacher asserted that evolution and the Big Bang are not scientific and that Noah’s ark carried dinosaurs. This case is not about the need to separate church and state; it’s about the need to separate ignorant, scientifically illiterate people from the ranks of teachers. - Neil deGrasse Tyson
Since human beings are highly adaptable it may be possible for an individual with any sort of competence to learn, in the end, according to any teaching strategy. But the experiments show, very clearly indeed, that the rate, quality and durability of learning is crucially dependent upon whether or not the teaching strategy is of a sort that suits the individual. - Gordon Pask
Some of the world's best educators are grandparents. - Dr Charlie W. Shedd
Teacher appreciation makes the world of education go around. - Helen Peters
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