Quotes

Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.  -Gail Godwin-

A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.  

-Henry Brooks Adams-

In teaching you cannot see the fruit of a day's work.  It is invisible and remains so, maybe for twenty years.  

-Jacques Barzun-

I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.  

-Lily Tomlin as "Edith Ann"-

What the teacher is, is more important than what he teaches.  

-Karl Menninger-

The task of the excellent teacher is to stimulate "apparently ordinary" people to unusual effort.  The tough problem is not in identifying winners:  it is in making winners out of ordinary people.  

-K. Patricia Cross-