This document contains quotes from various authors on the art of teaching. The quotes discuss different aspects of teaching, including: - A good teacher inspires students to learn and challenges them. - The impact and influence of a teacher may not be seen for many years. - Teaching skills all other professions. - A teacher's job is very challenging as they must meet the needs of many students at once. - What kind of person a teacher is can be more important than what they teach.

1. The Art of Teaching

2. I like a teacher who gives you something to
take home to think about besides
homework.
~Lily Tomlin as "Edith Ann"

3. The dream begins with a teacher who
believes in you, who tugs and pushes and
leads you to the next plateau, sometimes
poking you with a sharp stick called "truth."
~Dan Rather

4. In teaching you cannot see the fruit of a
day's work. It is invisible and remains so,
maybe for twenty years.
~Jacques Barzun

5. Teaching is the profession that teaches all
the other professions.
~Author Unknown

6. If a doctor, lawyer, or dentist had 40 people
in his office at one time, all of whom had
different needs, and some of whom didn't
want to be there and were causing trouble,
and the doctor, lawyer, or dentist, without
assistance, had to treat them all with
professional excellence for nine months,
then he might have some conception of
the classroom teacher's job.
~Donald D. Quinn

7. Modern cynics and skeptics... see no harm
in paying those to whom they entrust the
minds of their children a smaller wage
than is paid to those to whom they entrust
the care of their plumbing.
~John F. Kennedy

8. A teacher who is attempting to teach without
inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is
hammering on cold iron.
~Horace Mann

9. A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell
where his influence stops.
~Henry Brooks Adams

10. A good teacher is like a candle - it
consumes itself to light the way for others.
~Author Unknown

11. The true teacher defends his pupils against
his own personal influence. He inspires
self-distrust. He guides their eyes from
himself to the spirit that quickens him. He
will have no disciple.
~Amos Bronson Alcott

12. A good teacher is a master of simplification
and an enemy of simplism.
~Louis A. Berman

13. We expect teachers to handle teenage
pregnancy, substance abuse, and the
failings of the family. Then we expect them
to educate our children.
~John Sculley

14. Good teachers are costly, but bad teachers
cost more.
~Bob Talbert

15. The mediocre teacher tells. The good
teacher explains. The superior teacher
demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
~William Arthur Ward

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

17. A teacher's purpose is not to create students
in his own image, but to develop students
who can create their own image.
~Author Unknown

18. What the teacher is, is more important than
what he teaches.
~Karl Menninger

19. Teaching should be full of ideas instead of
stuffed with facts.
~Author Unknown

20. Teaching is leaving a vestige of one self in
the development of another. And surely
the student is a bank where you can
deposit your most precious treasures.
~Eugene P. Bertin

21. Teachers who inspire know that teaching is
like cultivating a garden, and those who
would have nothing to do with thorns must
never attempt to gather flowers.
~Author Unknown

22. Teachers who inspire realize there will
always be rocks in the road ahead of us.
They will be stumbling blocks or stepping
stones; it all depends on how we use
them.
~Author Unknown

23. Give a man a fish and you feed him for a
day; teach a man how to fish and you feed
him for a lifetime.

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

25. One looks back with appreciation to the
brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to
those who touched our human feelings.
The curriculum is so much necessary raw
material, but warmth is the vital element
for the growing plant and for the soul of
the child.
~Carl Jung

26. The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid
you to enter the house of his wisdom but
rather leads you to the threshold of your
mind.
~Kahlil Gibran

27. The task of the excellent teacher is to
stimulate "apparently ordinary" people to
unusual effort. The tough problem is not in
identifying winners: it is in making winners
out of ordinary people.
~ K. Patricia Cross

28. When you teach your son, you teach your
son's son.
~The Talmud

29. The best teachers teach from the heart, not
from the book.
~Author Unknown

30. Often, when I am reading a good book, I
stop and thank my teacher. That is, I used
to, until she got an unlisted number.
~Author Unknown

31. Who dares to teach must never cease to
learn.
~John Cotton Dana

32. There are three good reasons to be a
teacher - June, July, and August.
~Author Unknown

33. A teacher should have maximal authority,
and minimal power.
~Thomas Szaz

34. To teach is to learn twice.
~Joseph Joubert, Pensées, 1842

35. The secret of teaching is to appear to have
known all your life what you just learned
this morning.
~Author Unknown

36. The object of teaching a child is to enable
him to get along without his teacher.
~Elbert Hubbard

37. Teaching is the only major occupation of
man for which we have not yet developed
tools that make an average person
capable of competence and performance.
In teaching we rely on the "naturals," the
ones who somehow know how to teach.
~Peter Drucker

38. Teachers are expected to reach
unattainable goals with inadequate tools.
The miracle is that at times they
accomplish this impossible task.
~Haim G. Ginott

39. The art of teaching is the art of assisting
discovery.
~Mark Van Doren