Quotes about Teaching
"Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn."
- Benjamin Franklin
"We do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that deep inside of us something is valuable, worth listening to, worthy of our trust, sacred to our touch. Once we believe in ourselves we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight or any experience that reveals the human spirit."
- E.E. Cummings
"Education is not the learning of facts, but the training of the mind."
- Albert Einstein
"Every child in your class is someone's whole world."
"Who dares to teach must never cease to learn."
- John Cotton Dana
"I've come to the frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element in the classroom. It is my daily mood that makes the weather. As a teacher, I possess a tremendous power to make a child's life miserable or joyous. I can be a tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration. I can humiliate or humor, hurt or heal. In all situations, it is my response that decides whether a crisis will be escalated or de-escalated and a child humanized or de-humanized."
- Dr. Haim Ginott
"Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy."
- Robert A. Heinlein
"Modern cynics and skeptics . . . see no harm in paying those in whom they entrust the minds of their children a smaller wage than is paid to those whom they trust the care of their plumbing."
- John F. Kennedy
"Smile. Yours might be the only one a child gets today!"
"Raise your words not your voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder."
-Rumi
"The way we talk to our children becomes their inner voice."
- Peggy O'Mara
"Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will becomes who he should be."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson