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
Teaching is the profession that teaches all the other professions.
~Author Unknown
Teaching was the hardest work I had ever done, and it remains the hardest work I have done to date.
-- Ann Richards
Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
~Gail Godwin
Being able to help someone learn something is a talent.
-- Margaret Riel
Teaching, is not just a job. It is a human service, and it must be thought of as a mission.
-- Dr. Ralph Tyler
The greatest discoveries all start with the question "WHY?"
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Dr. Robert D. Ballard
Teaching kids to count is fine, but teaching them what counts is best.
--
Bob Talbert
Expect people to be better than they are; it helps them to become better. But don't be disappointed when they're not; it helps them to keep trying. -- Merry Browne
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 should be full of ideas instead of stuffed with facts.
~Author Unknown
The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.
~Mark Van Doren
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
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
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
When you teach your son, you teach your son's son.
~The Talmud
To teach is to learn twice.
~Joseph Joubert, Pensées, 1842
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