teachers … & teaching
A few observations from around the globe on teachers & teaching I found interesting;
I never did very well in math. I could never seem to persuade the teacher that I hadn’t meant my answers literally. [Calvin Trillin]
I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework. [Lily Tomlin]
Modern cynics and skeptics see no harm in paying those to whom they entrust the minds of their children a smaller wage than is paid to those to whom they entrust the care of their plumbing. [John F. Kennedy]
A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron. [Horace Mann]
When you teach your son, you teach your son’s son. [The Talmud]
A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops. [Henry Brooks Adams]
Teachers, I believe, are the most responsible and important members of society because their professional efforts affect the fate of the earth. [Helen Caldicott]
Better than a thousand days of diligent study is one day with a great teacher. [Japanese proverb]
Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. [Anonymous]
Education is light, lack of it darkness. [Russian proverb]
Tell me and I’ll forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and I’ll understand. [Chinese Proverb]
You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil. [Friedrich Nietzsche]
As long as teachers give tests, there will always be prayer in schools. [Anonymous]
My education was dismal. I went to a series of schools for mentally disturbed teachers. [Woody Allen]
