TEACHER

Related Subjects: Education, Grammar, Leadership, Learning, Master, Pedantry, Scholar, School, Teaching, University

1. A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.—HENRY ADAMS, The Education of Henry Adams
   

2. The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-distrust. He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him. He will have no disciple.—BRONSON ALCOTT, Orphic Sayings
   

3. Brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel.—Bible, Acts 22:3
   

4. Arrogance, pedantry, and dogmatism are the occupational diseases of those who spend their lives directing the intellects of the young.—HENRY S. CANBY, Alma Mater
   

5. And gladly wolde he lerne, and gladly teche.—CHAUCER, The Canterbury Tales
   

6. Charming women can true converts make,
   We love the precepts for the teacher's sake.—GEORGE FARQUHAR, The Constant Couple
   

7. A teacher who can arouse a feeling for one single good action, for one single good poem, accomplishes more than he who fills our memory with rows on rows of natural objects, classified with name and form.—GOETHE, Elective Affinities
   

8. University teachers, like the members of other professions, are, for the most part, mediocrities striving to be sublime; our business is to maximize their sublimity.—HAROLD J. LASKI
   

9. No bubble is so iridescent or floats longer than that blown by the successful teacher.—SIR WILLIAM OSLER, Life of Sir William Osler
   

10. He that sits to work in the market-place shall have many teachers.—Proverb
    

11. I am but a gatherer and disposer of men's stuff.—SIR HENRY WOTTON, Preface to the Elements of Architecture