Tea Quotes

We have inadvertently designed a system in which being good at what you do as a teacher is not formally rewarded, while being poor at what you do is seldom corrected nor penalized.

Elliot Wayne Eisne

If you cannot teach me to fly, teach me to sing.

James Barrie

Smartness runs in my family. When I went to school I was so smart my teacher was in my class for five years.

George Burns

Cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity.

Joseph Addison

Teachers believe they have a gift for giving it drives them with the same irrepressible drive that drives others to create a work of art or a market or a building.

A Bartlett Giamatti

Believe nothing merely because you have been told it. Do not believe what your teacher tells you merely out of respect for the teacher. But whatsoever, after due examination and analysis, you find to be kind, conducive to the good, the benefit, the welfare of all beings - - That doctrine believe and cling to, and take it as your guide.

Buddha

He who ceases to learn cannot adequately teach.

Unknown

Through his mastery of storytelling techniques, he has managed to separate his character, in the public mind, from his actions as president. ... He has, in short, mesmerized us with that steady gaze.

Jean Nathan Mille

The purpose of all higher education is to make men aware of what was and what is to incite them to probe into what may be. It seeks to teach them to understand, to evaluate, to communicate.

Otto Kleppne

Speak to the earth, and it shall teach thee.

Biblical Prove

To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mind.

William Hazlitt

If God did not exist it would be necessary to invent Him. But all nature cries aloud that He does exist that there is a supreme intelligence, an immense power, an admirable order, and everything teaches us our own dependence on it.

Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire

If you can read this, thank a teacher.

Anonymous teache

Only dreamers can teach us to soar.

Anne Marie Pierce

We teachers can only help the work going on, as servants wait upon a master.

Maria Montessori

An understanding heart is everything in a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feeling. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.

Carl Jung

Take only pictures, steal only time, leave only footprints.

Unknown

The Preacher, the Politicain, the Teacher, Were each of them once a kiddie. A child, indeed, is a wonderful creature. Do I want one? God Forbiddie!

Ogden Nash

Instead of solid accomplishments, the man pursues pleasures and self - Gratification. He will never achieve anything so long as he is surrounded by dissipating temptations.

I Ching

The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence.

Amos Bronson Alcott

History is philosophy teaching by example, and also warning its two eyes are geography and chronology.

James A. Garfield

Travel, instead of broadening the mind, often merely lengthens the conversation.

Elizabeth Drew

Instead of loving your enemies, treat your friends a little better.

Ed Howe

The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away.

Ronald Reagan

The good man is the teacher of the bad, And the bad is the material from which the good may learn. He who does not value the teacher, Or greatly care for the material, Is greatly deluded although he may be learned. Such is the essential mystery.

Lao - Tzu

Experience teaches only the teachable.

Aldous Huxley

Teaching should be such that what is offered is perceived as a valuable gift and not as a hard duty.

Albert Einstein

I have learnt silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers.

Kahlil Gibran

It is very strange that the years teach us patience - That the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting.

Elizabeth Taylor, "A Wreath of Roses".

Describing her first day back in grade school after a long absence, a teacher said, It was like trying to hold 35 corks under water at the same time.

Mark Twain

The drying up a single tear has more of honest fame than shedding seas of gore.

Lord Byron

A wisely chosen illustration is almost essential to fasten the truth upon the ordinary mind, and no teacher can afford to neglect this part of his preparation.

Howard Crosby

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

Jacques Martin Barzun

Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus, Adversus Valentinianos

Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks.

Doug Larson

Experience is a hard teacher becuase she gives the tests first, the lessons afterwards.

Vernon Suanders Law, Chicken Soup for the Teenage soul: Tough Stuff

To me the meanest flower that blows can give Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.

William Wordsworth, "Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood", 1803