PROFESSORS QUOTES

“Teaching is the art of assisting discovery.” – Mark Van Doren

“A good teacher is like a candle – it consumes itself to light the way for others.” – Unknown

“Students don’t care how much you know until they know how much you care.” – John C. Maxwell

“The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.” – William Arthur Ward

“Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.” – William Butler Yeats

“The job of an educator is to teach students to see vitality in themselves.” – Joseph Campbell

“Teaching is only demonstrating that it is possible. Learning is making it possible for yourself.” – Paulo Coelho

“A teacher who loves learning earns the right and the ability to help others learn.” – Ruth Beechick

“Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.” – Gail Godwin “A good teacher is a master of simplification and an enemy of simplism.” – Louis A. Berman

“I never teach my pupils. I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.” – Albert Einstein

“Teaching is the greatest act of optimism.” – Colleen Wilcox

“The teacher’s task is to initiate the learning process and then get out of the way.” – John Warren WORK PRIDE QUOTES

“Great teachers engineer learning experiences that put students in the driver’s seat and then get out of the way.” – Benjamin Franklin

“The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself.” – Edward Bulwer-Lytton

“Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.” – Jacques Barzun

“The best teachers are those who show you where to look, but don’t tell you what to see.” – Alexandra K. Trenfor

“The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.” – Malcolm Forbes

“The goal of education is not to increase the amount of knowledge but to create the possibilities for a child to invent and discover, to create men who are capable of doing new things.” – Jean Piaget

“Good teachers are those who know how little they know. Bad teachers are those who think they know more than they don’t know.” – R. Verdi

“Great teachers are those who inspire their students to think for themselves and find their own voice.” – Unknown

“Teaching is the profession that creates all other professions.” – Unknown

“The most valuable resource that all teachers have is each other. Without collaboration our growth is limited to our own perspectives.” – Robert John Meehan

“In teaching others we teach ourselves.” – Proverb