Favorite Quotes

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A teacher affects eternity:
he can never tell where his influence stops.

--Henry Adams


What nobler employment, or more valuable to the state,
than that of the man who instructs the rising generation.

--Marcus Tullius Cicero


The important thing is not so much
that every child should be taught,
as that every child should be given the wish to learn.

--John Lubbock


Those who educate children well are more to be honored than parents, for these only gave life,
those the art of living well.

--Aristotle


By learning you will teach;
by teaching you will understand.

--Latin Proverb


We cannot hold a torch to light another's path without brightening our own.

--Ben Sweetland


We learn by teaching.

--James Howell


It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken
joy in creative expression and knowledge.

-- Albert Einstein


The most effective teacher will always be biased,
for the chief force in teaching is confidence and enthusiasm.

--Joyce Cary


Whatever you want to teach, be brief.

--Horace


He that teaches us anything which we knew not
before is undoubtedly to be reverenced as a master.

--Samuel Johnson

Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better
than the wealth of the ignorant.

--Epictetus


Teaching is not a lost art,
but the regard for it is a lost tradition.

--Jacques Barzun


Education is the transmission of civilization.

--Will Durant


To teach is to learn twice over.

--Joseph Joubert


A schoolmaster should have an atmosphere of awe,
and walk wonderingly, as if he was amazed at being himself.

--Newton D. Baker


One good teacher in a lifetime may sometimes
change a delinquent into a solid citizen.

--Philip Wylie


A child miseducated is a child lost.

--John F. Kennedy


A master can tell you what he expects of you.
A teacher, though, awakens your own expectations.

--Patricia Neal