It takes a village to raise a child.
-- Africa Proverb

A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
--Thomas Carruthers

In teaching it is the method and not the content that is the message.
-- Ashley Montague

To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.
-- Nicolaus Copernicus

Tell me, and I'll forget. Show
me, and I may not remember.
Involve me, and I'll understand.
-- Native American Proverb

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

“If a child can’t learn the way we teach, maybe we should teach the way they learn.” 
-- Iqnacio Extreda

A teacher:
takes a hand
opens a mind
touches a heart
shapes the future
--unknown

The mediocre teacher tells. 
The good teacher explains. 
The superior teacher demonstrates. 
The great teacher inspires. 
-- William A. Ward

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

A single conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study. 
-- Chinese Proverb

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

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

By learning you will teach, by teaching you will learn.
-- Latin Proverb

To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert

Learning is like rowing upstream:  not to advance is to drop back.
-- Chinese Proverb

Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.
-- Abraham Lincoln

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
-- Confucius

Real teaching is to teach fishing rather than give the fish.
-- Chinese proverb

The ink of the scholar is more sacred than the blood of the martyr.
-- Mohammed

Much education today is monumentally ineffective.  All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants.
-- John W. Gardner

Role Model

One father is worth 100 schoolmasters.
-- George Herbert

Teacher : The child's third parent.
-- Hyman Berston

I have no special talents.  I am only passionately curious. 
-- Albert Einstein

Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton asked why. 
-- Bernard Baruch

Enthusiasm

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

I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.
-- Albert Einstein

Classroom Management

"Do you think you can maintain discipline?" asked the Superintendent. "Of course I can," replied Stuart. "I'll make the work interesting and the discipline will take care of itself."
-- E.B. White, Stuart Little

The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.
--Alvin Toffler

My parents told me, "Finish your dinner.  People in China and India are starving."  I tell my daughters, "Finish your homework.  People in India and China are starving for your job." 
-- Thomas L. Friedman