National Teacher Appreciation Day – May 6, 2014
Being a teacher is a job that takes a great amount of patience and dedication. It isn’t a job that you simply clock in when the first bell rings and clock out when the last bell sounds off. Evenings, and often times weekends, are spent lesson planning, correcting papers and researching activities or projects for students. In celebration of National Teacher Day today, here are 10 great quotes about teachers, teaching and learning.
10 Great Quotes About Teachers, Teaching and Learning
1. It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.
Albert Einstein
2. Teach the children so that it will not be necessary to teach the adults.
President Abraham Lincoln
3. The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.
C. W. Lewis
4. Most of us end up with no more than five or six people who remember us. Teachers have thousands of people who remember them for the rest of their lives.
Andy Rooney
5. I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.
Lily Tomlin
6. A professor is someone who talks in someone else’s sleep.
W. H. Auden
7. Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.
Benjamin Franklin
8. Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.
Jacques Barzun
9. Modern cynics and skeptics… see no harm in paying those to whom they entrust the minds of their children a smaller wage than is paid to those to whom they entrust the care of their plumbing.
John F. Kennedy
10. Summer vacation is the time when parents realize that teachers are grossly underpaid.
Author Unknown