Famous Inspirational Quotes » Thank You Teachers

Why teachers are great

Iskandar — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 07:02:54 +0000

The greatest use of a life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.

William James

Hippocrates on teachers

Iskandar — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 12:56:18 +0000

I swear… to hold my teacher in this art equal to my own parents. To make him partner in my livelihood – when he is in need of money to share mine with him. To consider his family as my own brothers and to teach them this art, if they want to learn it – without fee or indenture.

Hippocrates on Teachers and Teaching

What teaching is like

Iskandar — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 12:54:22 +0000

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

Brodie, Fawn M.

Nobler work ?

Iskandar — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 12:53:05 +0000

What nobler employment, or more valuable to the state, than that of the man who instructs the rising generation ?

Marcus Tullius Cicero

School door opener

Iskandar — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 12:52:04 +0000

He who opens a school door, closes a prison.

Victor Hugo

Good teaching

Iskandar — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 12:51:00 +0000

Good teaching comes from good people.

Parker Palmer

Answer to problems

Iskandar — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 12:49:36 +0000

At the desk where I sit, I have learned one great truth. The answer for all our national problems – the answer for all the problems of the world – comes to a single word. That word is education.

Lyndon Johnson

The educator

Iskandar — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 12:48:19 +0000

The man who can make hard things easy is the educator.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

If it were easy

Iskandar — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 12:47:48 +0000

If teaching were easy, we wouldn’t need teachers.

Todd Whitaker

No one

Iskandar — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 12:47:06 +0000

No one like you was ever born or ever will be.

Constance Foster