teacher quotes

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

- Henry Brooks Adams
  The Education of Henry  Adams, ch.20,'Failure'.

Everywhere the sea is a teacher of truth. I am not sure that the best thing I find in sailing is not this salt of reality.

- (Joseph) Hilaire Pierre Belloc
c.1910  The Cruise of the Nona.

A poor surgeon hurts one person at a time. A poor teacher hurts 30.

- Dr Ernest L Boyer
  In People,17 Mar.

Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.

- Bill (William Henry III) Gates
  In the Independent on Sunday,12 Oct.

Sportsmanship, next to the Church, is the greatest teacher of morals.

- Herbert Clark Hoover
Quoted in  John Rickards Betts  America's Sporting Heritage: 1850^1950 (1974).

What matters is not what any individual thinks, but what is true. A teacher who does not equip his pupils with the rudimentary tools to discover this is substituting indoctrination for teaching.

- Richard Stanley Peters
  Ethics and Education.

As every teacher, like every drill-sergeant or animal trainer, knows in his practice, teaching and training have virtually not yet begun, so long as the pupil istoo young, too stupid, too scared or too sulky to respondand to respond is not just to yield.Where there is a modicum of alacrity, interest or anyhow docility in the pupil, where he tries, however faintheartedly, to get things right rather than awkward, where, even, he registers even a slight contempt for the poor performances of others, of chagrin at his own, pleasure at his own successes and envy of those of others, then he is, in however slight a degree, co-operating and so self-moving.

- Gilbert Ryle
Quoted in R S Peters (ed) The Concept of Education (1966), ch.7.

My greatest teacher was not a vocal coach, not the work of other singers, but the wayTommy Dorsey breathed and phrased on the trombone.

- Frank (Francis Albert) Sinatra
Foreword to GeorgeT SimonThe Big Bands (1967).

Math was my worst subject because I could never persuade the teacher that my answers were meant ironically.

- Calvin Marshall Trillin
  In the NewYorkTimes,7 Oct. US literary  critic whose works,  such  as The Liberal  Imagination (1950)  and  Beyond  Culture  (1965),  gained him  a  reputation for scholarly  and  astute  social  comment.  He  also  wrote  a  novel, The Middle of  theJourney (1947).

Nobody loves a bad teacher.

-Ted (Edward) Conrad Wragg
  Education: an Action Guide for Parents.