Great Quotes to Inspire Great Teachers

Noah benShea

• Publisher: Skyhorse
• Year: 2014
• ISBN:
  9781629149691
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Education Teaching Methods

This collection of timeless wisdom will guide you on the path to being a truly great teacher! International best-selling author Noah benShea brings his unique insights to a collection of topical quotes that celebrate "the splendor of a sudden thought."Like a wise and gentle friend, this book is designed to provide support and inspiration for all teachers as they face the daily intellectual, emotional, spiritual, and physical challenges of professional and personal life. You'll find cogent and insightful quotes on a wide variety of subjects, including: • The art of teaching
• Stress, rest, and well-being
• Diversity, culture, and language
• Responsibility
• Discipline
• Spirituality
… and many other topics of interest to classroom teachers.Open this book to any page and you will find both teaching and learning, as you draw from a wellspring of quotations and common sense meant to inform, inspire, and transform.

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THE ART OF TEACHING

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

—Jacques Barzun

Little warms us like the soul’s own spark of self-worth.

—Noah benShea

Folks don’t like to have somebody around knowin’ more than they do. It aggravates ’em. You’re not gonna change any of them by talkin’ right, they’ve got to want to learn themselves, and when they don’t want to learn there’s nothing you can do but keep your mouth shut or talk their language.

—Harper Lee

Benevolence alone will not make a teacher, nor will learning alone do it. The gift of teaching is a peculiar talent, and implies a need and a craving in the teacher himself.

—John Jay Chapman

When will the public cease to insult the teacher’s calling with empty flattery? When will men who would never for a moment encourage their own sons to enter the work of the public schools cease to tell us that education is the greatest and noblest of all human callings?

—William C. Bagley

First you destroy those who create values. Then you destroy those who know what the values are, and who also know that those destroyed before were in fact the creators of values. But real barbarism begins when no one can any longer judge or know that what he does is barbaric.

—Ryszard Kapuscinski

The cynic knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.

—Oscar Wilde

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

—Henry B. Adams

Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.

—Albert Einstein

What office is there which involves more responsibility, which requires more qualifications, and which ought, therefore, to be more honourable, than that of teaching?

—Harriet Martineau

Until you value yourself, you won’t value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.

—M. Scott Peck

Housework is a breeze. Cooking is a pleasant diversion. Putting up a retaining wall is a lark. But teaching is like climbing a mountain.

—Fawn M. Brodie

One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers . . . with gratitude to those who touched our human feeling . . .

—Carl Gustav Jung

Knowing how things work is the basis for appreciation, and is thus a source of civilized delight.

—William Safire

America today is capable of terrific intolerance about smoking, or toxic waste that threatens trout. But only a deeply con...