Teacher Quotes
When the new academic year starts, the frequency of my blog posts will probably decline as I’ll be much busier. Lately, though, I’ve been scouring the web for quotations about teachers and teaching as a way of starting a new year: something very general but highly relevant nevertheless. Luckily, most of the quotes I encountered were favourable, but this one about teachers of English sounded really out-dated (though it may have been true a century ago, it could currently be interpreted as insulting):
•In order to teach chemistry or psychology or even history or Greek a man must actually know something, but for the teacher of English nothing seems to be necessary beyond a crude capacity to read and write. ~Henry Louis Mencken
On the other hand, here are the quotations that rang the most true:
•In teaching you cannot see the fruit of a day's work. It is invisible and remains so, maybe for twenty years. ~Jacques Barzun
•Teaching creates all other professions. ~Author Unknown
• Good teachers are costly, but bad teachers cost more. ~Bob Talbert
• Education costs money, but then so does ignorance. ~Sir Claus Moser
• Nine-tenths of education is encouragement. ~Anatole France
•Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose. ~Bill Gates
•Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important. ~Bill Gates
•A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary. ~Thomas Carruthers
•The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires. ~William Arthur Ward
Posted by May Mikati on 17 September 2011, 1:18 AM
When the new academic year starts, the frequency of my blog posts will probably decline as I’ll be much busier. Lately, though, I’ve been scouring the web for quotations about teachers and teaching as a way of starting a new year: something very general but highly relevant nevertheless. Luckily, most of the quotes I encountered were favourable, but this one about teachers of English sounded really out-dated (though it may have been true a century ago, it could currently be interpreted as insulting):
•In order to teach chemistry or psychology or even history or Greek a man must actually know something, but for the teacher of English nothing seems to be necessary beyond a crude capacity to read and write. ~Henry Louis Mencken
On the other hand, here are the quotations that rang the most true:
•In teaching you cannot see the fruit of a day's work. It is invisible and remains so, maybe for twenty years. ~Jacques Barzun
•Teaching creates all other professions. ~Author Unknown
• Good teachers are costly, but bad teachers cost more. ~Bob Talbert
• Education costs money, but then so does ignorance. ~Sir Claus Moser
• Nine-tenths of education is encouragement. ~Anatole France
•Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose. ~Bill Gates
•Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important. ~Bill Gates
•A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary. ~Thomas Carruthers
•The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires. ~William Arthur Ward
Posted by May Mikati on 17 September 2011, 1:18 AM
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