Teacher Quotes (6)
A good teacher is a master of simplification and an enemy of simplism.
Erin Gruwell and Frank McCourt, The Gigantic Book of Teachers' Wisdom (2007), 73.Erin Gruwell, Frank McCourt
See also: | Simplification (2)
Every fool believes what his teachers tell him, and calls his credulity science or morality as confidently as his father called it divine revelation.
'Maxims for Revolutionists', in Man and Superman (1905), 230.
See also: | Education (73)
Good teachers deserve apples; great teachers deserve chocolate.
A favorite quotation, written in calligraphy on his office door.
A favorite quotation, written in calligraphy on his office door.
Quoted in National Academy of Engineering, Memorial Tributes (1979), 123.
See also: | Motto (4)
He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.
'Maxims for Revolutionists', in Man and Superman (1905), 230.
I can but think that the world would be better and brighter if our teachers would dwell on the duty of happiness as well as the happiness of duty; for we ought to be as bright and genial as we can, if only because to be cheerful ourselves is a most effectual contribution to the happiness of others.
See also: | Happiness (11)
If I were summing up the qualities of a good teacher of medicine, I would enumerate human sympathy, moral and intellectual integrity, enthusiasm, and ability to talk, in addition, of course, to knowledge of his subject.
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