2,279 Quotes About Teaching

One can learn anything, anything at all, I thought, if provided by a gifted and passionate teacher.

I realized that every lesson, conference, response, and assignment I taught must lead students away from me and toward their autonomy as literate people.

Worst People Are the best TEACHERS.

Ahhh, teaching literature. A noble calling! For we are all stories.

Our world needs less gurus, and more teachers. Gurus are about helping themselves become successful. Teachers are about helping others become successful.

Accountability makes no sense when it undermines the larger goals of education.

..English teachers often take a right-wrong stance. I'd rather my students take a thinking stance.

They will need you to put the right books in their hands, book in which they can lose themselves and books in which they can find themselves.

Genuine wisdom has two major conditions: you cannot teach it, and you cannot make someone learn it.