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CENTRAL PHILIPPINE UNIVERSITY

College of Education
Iloilo City, Philippines

COMPILATION OF QUOTES ABOUT

“TEACHING” AND/OR “TEACHERS”

Joy Lyn F. Visto Educ. 428-Student Teaching in the High School FS 2017 – 2018
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College of Education
Iloilo City, Philippines

“Do not confine your children to your own learning, for they were born in
another time.”
~Chinese Proverb

“If kids come to us from strong, healthy functioning families, it makes our job easier. If
they do not come to us from strong, healthy functioning families, it makes our job more
important.”
~Barbara Colorose

“What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not

knowledge in pursuit of the child.”
~George Bernard Shaw

“We’re trying to give the young people something that can help them,
and we don’t know exactly what it ought to be.”
~Wendell Berry

“The dream begins, most of the time, with a teacher who believes in you,
who tugs and pushes and leads you on to the next plateau, sometimes
poking you with a sharp stick called truth.”
~Dan Rather

“Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.”

~Gail Goldwin

“I’m not sayin’ I’m gonna change the world, but I guarantee that I will
spark the brain that will.”
~Tupac Shakur

Joy Lyn F. Visto Educ. 428-Student Teaching in the High School FS 2017 – 2018
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College of Education
Iloilo City, Philippines

“Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.”

~John Dewey

“I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as
there are any other great artists. It might even be the greatest of the arts since the
medium is the human mind and spirit.”
~John Steinbeck

“The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher
demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.”
~William Ward

“The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life.”
~Plato

“If you are planning for a year, sow rice; if you are planning for a decade, plant trees; if
you are planning for a lifetime, educate people.”
~Chinese Proverb

“The more that you read, the more things you will know, the more that you learn, the
more places you’ll go.”
~Dr. Seuss

“Teaching is the one profession that creates all other professions.”

~Unknown

“I cannot teach anybody anything; I can only make them think.”

~Socrates

Joy Lyn F. Visto Educ. 428-Student Teaching in the High School FS 2017 – 2018
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College of Education
Iloilo City, Philippines

“Never discourage anyone…who continually makes progress, no matter how slow.”

~Plato

“Education breeds confidence. Confidence breeds hope. Hope breeds peace.”

~Confucius

“I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides
homework.”
~Lily Tomlin

“The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence.”
~Amos Bronson Alcott

“The teachers who get “burned out” are not the ones who are constantly learning,
which can be exhilarating, but those who feel they must stay in control and ahead of the
students at all times.”
~Frank Martin

“If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up people together to collect wood and don’t
assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of
the sea.”
~Antoine de Saint-Exupér

“Teach the children so it will not be necessary to teach the adults.”

~Abraham Lincoln

Joy Lyn F. Visto Educ. 428-Student Teaching in the High School FS 2017 – 2018
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College of Education
Iloilo City, Philippines

“Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.”
~B. F. Skinner

“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
~Mahatma Gandhi

“Better than a thousand days of diligent study is one day with a great teacher”
~Japanese Proverb

“Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.”
~Albert Einstein

“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”
~Nelson Mandela

“You can teach a student a lesson for a day; but if you can teach him to learn by creating
curiosity he will continue the learning process as long as he lives.”
~Clay P. Bedford

“Once you have learned to ask questions – relevant and appropriate and substantial
questions – you have learned how to learn and no one can keep you from learning
whatever you want or need to know.”
~Neil Postman and Charles Weingartner

“True teachers are those who use themselves as bridges over which they invite their
students to cross; then, having facilitated their crossing, joyfully collapse, encouraging
them to create their own.”
― Nikos Kazantzakis

Joy Lyn F. Visto Educ. 428-Student Teaching in the High School FS 2017 – 2018