"Teaching
kids to count is fine, but teaching them what counts is best."
- Bob Talbert
When
you teach your son, you teach your son's son.
-- The Talmud
It’s
what you learn after you know it all that counts.
-- Harry S. Truman
The
art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.
-- Mark Van Doren
 | The
teacher that I was for decades, and that I still am in a certain way, wondered
what was meant by the word education. I was truly dumbfounded at the very thought
of dealing with such an essential and extensive subject.
-- Abdoulaye Wade |
The
mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates.
The great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward
| The most important
part of teaching is to teach what it is to know.
-- Simone
Weil |  |
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I saw as a teacher how,
if you take that spark of learning that those children have, and you ignite it,
you can take a child from any background to a lifetime of creativity and accomplishment.
-- Paul Wellstone
If a teacher
does not involve himself, his values, his commitments, in the course of discussion,
why should the students?
-- Paul
Wellstone |
“Teaching
is the greatest act of optimism”
-- Colleen Wilcox
| Mama
was my greatest teacher, a teacher of compassion, love and fearlessness. If love
is sweet as a flower, then my mother is that sweet flower of love.
-- Stevie
Wonder | 
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One
good teacher in a lifetime may sometimes change a delinquent into a solid citizen.
-- Philip Wylie
Teacher's
Day - October 5
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Also Eduction & Literacy Quotes
