Quotes About Being a Teacher

A teacher affects eternity:
he can never tell where his influence stops.
Henry Adams

What nobler employment, or more valuable to the state, than that of the man who instructs the rising generation.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

This one is my favourite : 

The important thing is not so much
that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn.
John Lubbock

Those who educate children well are more to be honored than parents, for these only gave life,
those the art of living well.
Aristotle

What office is there which involves more responsibility, which requires more qualifications, and which ought, therefore, to be more honorable than teaching?
Harriet Martineau

By learning you will teach;
by teaching you will understand.
Latin Proverb

Education is the mother of leadership.
Wendell L. Willkie

Seldom was any knowledge given to keep, but to impart; the grace of this rich jewel is lost in concealment.
Bishop Hall

If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
Tryon Edwards

We cannot hold a torch to light another's path without brightening our own.
Ben Sweetland

Grammar speaks; dialectics teach us truth; rhetoric gives colouring to our speech; music sings; arithmetic numbers; geometry weighs and measures;
astronomy teaches us to know the stars.
Latin Maxim

This is my second favourite :

To know how to suggest is the great art of teaching.
Henri Frederic Amiel

We learn by teaching.
James Howell

Natural ability is by far the best, but many men have succeeded in winning high renown by skill that is the fruit of teaching.
Pindar 

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken
joy in creative expression and knowledge.
Albert Einstein

The most effective teacher will always be biased,
for the chief force in teaching is confidence and enthusiasm.
Joyce Cary

Education is the guardian genius of democracy.
It is the only dictator that free men recognize,
and the only ruler that free men require.
Mirabeau Buonaparte Lamar

Whatever you want to teach, be brief. 
Horace

To me, education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul.
Muriel Spark

Nine-tenths of education is encouragement.
Anatole France

The true aim of every one who aspires to be a teacher should be, not to impart his own opinions,
but to kindle minds.
F. W. Robertson

He that teaches us anything which we knew not
before is undoubtedly to be reverenced as a master.
Samuel Johnson

I hear and I forget. I see and I remember.
I do and I understand.
Chinese Proverb
From Teaching Quotations at Parrot's Meow

Be careful to leave your sons well
instructed rather than rich,
for the hopes of the instructed are better
than the wealth of the ignorant.
Epictetus

I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.
Alexander of Macedon

To know how to suggest is the great art of teaching. To attain it we must be able to guess what will interest: we must learn to read the childish soul as we might a piece of music. Then, by simply changing the key, we keep up the attraction anil vary the song.
Henri Frederic Amiel

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

Education is the transmission of civilization.
Will Durant

To teach is to learn twice over.
Joseph Joubert

A schoolmaster should have an atmosphere of awe,
and walk wonderingly, as if he was amazed at being himself.
Newton D. Baker

One good teacher in a lifetime may sometimes
change a delinquent into a solid citizen.
Philip Wylie

A child miseducated is a child lost.
John F. Kennedy

A master can tell you what he expects of you.
A teacher, though, awakens your own expectations.
Patricia Neal

And one silly quote just for fun....

Never try to teach a pig to sing....it wastes
your time and annoys the pig.
Anonymous

Be Free and Try Things, teachers

There have always been many times where I actually can't stop thinking about my blog, my teaching strategies and my opinions on education that I suggest while talking with collegues . Not once or twice I was asked back , interrogated or gotten a few emails that criticized me for sharing things that I did :-((

 Some feel that this wouldn’t work in their classroom and that I live in a fairy tale land. Well, call me weird but I think I am glad that they feel free to share their feelings with me and I’m thankful that my ideas has created a powerful conversation.

When you read what I am writing here, please remember that I am suggesting things that have been successful for me. I am sharing things that have worked in my classroom and that I would do again. These have worked best for me but I’m not saying that they are the only things that work. I am not saying that all of the things would work for you the same way they did for me.

Please my dear friends and critics, remember that these things might not work for you. You need to consider issues like your own personality as well as the personalities and abilities of your students.

Sometimes what I suggest would not work in your situation but maybe you could adapt it to make it work. Go ahead , be free to explore and change and try something new, something different and something your own. Maybe my ideas could be a foundation for you to start with.

My dear friends, I hope you find teaching strategies and methods that work for you. Don’t be afraid to try new ideas. But please, don’t waste time debating over whether one is better than another until you have tried it OR you will end up finding yourself wasting the time and energy instead of providing instruction. You never know, maybe the one you thought wouldn’t work actually turns out to be successful!

So, moral of the story is :  find a method that works best for you, and PLEASE don’t waste time debating the merits of the options.”

Skype In The Classroom Is Now Open!

At the end of 2010 Skype announced that they were creating a directory of classrooms that want to connect with each other through Skype. This morning I learned through Read Write Web that theSkype in the Classroom community is now open.Skype in the Classroom invites teachers to create profiles that include their locations and interests. Browse the profiles of other teachers you can help or can help you and your students through Skype. When you've found someone you can add him or her to your Skype contacts.

Applications for Education
Teachers have been connecting through Skype for a while now, but until now the only way to find other teachers was through other networks like Twitter and Classroom 2.0. Now teachers can find collaboration partners within the Skype environment. If you would like to learn more about using Skype in your classroom, please read the Skype section of The Super Book of Web Tools for Educators.


Read more in http://www.freetech4teachers.com