Teaching Quotes - Teacher Quotes

By learning you will teach; by teaching you will learn.
Latin Proverb

Teachers open the door but you must walk through it yourself.

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

You cannot teach a crab to walk straight.
Aristophenes

Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.
Walter Bagehot

Acquire new knowledge whilst thinking over the old, and you may become a teacher of others.
Confucius

I believe that the testing of the student's achievements in order to see if he meets some criterion held by the teacher, is directly contrary to the implications of therapy for significant learning.
Carl Rogers

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

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

Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
Vernon Law

Time as he grows old teaches many lessons.
Aeschylus

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.
Aristotle