Teaching Quotes

A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops. (Henry Adams, 1838-1918)

The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. (Amos Bronson Alcott, 1799-1888)

To know how to suggest us the great art of teaching. (Henri-Frédéric Amiel, 1828-1881)

What nobler employment, or more valuable to the state, than that of the man who instructs the rising generation? (Cicero, 106-43 b.c.)

He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches. (George Bernard Shaw, 1856-1950)

… everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching – that is really what our enthusiasm for education has come to. (Oscar Wilde, 1854-1900)

If we don't stand up for children, then we don't stand for much. (Marian Wright Edelman, 1939)

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