“If you become a teacher, by your pupils you’ll be taught.”
(Rodgers & Hammerstein, “The King and I”)

 

“It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.”
(Albert Einstein)  

“Mistakes are their own instructors.”
(Horace)

 

“It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.”
(James Thurber)

 

“In teaching the greatest sin is to be boring.”
(J.F. Herbart)

 

“The philosophy of the classroom in one generation will be the philosophy of the government in the next.”
(Abraham Lincoln)

 

“Most of us end up with no more than 5 or 6 people who remember us. Teachers have thousands of people who remember them for the rest of their lives.”
(Andy Rooney)

 

“I have never heard anyone whom I consider a good teacher claim that he or she is a good teacher--in the way that one might claim to be a good writer or surgeon or athlete. Self-doubt seems very much a part of the job of teaching:  one can never be sure how well it is going.”
(Joseph Epstein)