ESP Teacher Development Course

Quotations about teaching

I touch the future.I teach. ChristaMcAuliffe

Everything I learn about teaching I learn from bad students.
John Holt

The best of teachers are those who have labored to be understood by the dullest capacities.
Charles H.Spurgeon

It is not so much what is poured into the student, but what is planted, that really counts.
E.C.McKenzie

The mind is a fire to be kindled, not a vessel to be filled.
Plutarch

The teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.
Horace Mann

The mediocre teacher tells.
The good teacher explains.
The superior teacher demonstrates.
The great teacher inspires.
William Arthur Ward

Education is not the filling of the pail, but the lighting of a fire.
William Butler Yeats

Learning and teaching are two of the most important functions in life; just as loving and being loved are important.
Anonymous

A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
Thomas Carruthers

We teach what we most need to learn.
Anonymous