A cross-eyed teacher can keep twice the number of children in order than any other, because the pupils do not know who she's looking at. ~Four Hundred Laughs: Or, Fun Without Vulgarity, compiled and edited by John R. Kemble, 1902
In teaching you cannot see the fruit of a day's work. It is invisible and remains so, maybe for twenty years. ~Jacques Barzun
"Education...beyond all other devices of human origin, is a great equalizer of conditions of men --the balance wheel of the social machinery...It does better than to disarm the poor of their hostility toward the rich; it prevents being poor."
Horace Mann
"Good teachers are those who know how little they know. Bad teachers are those who think they know more than they don't know."
R. Verdi
"None of us got where we are solely by pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps. We got here because somebody - a parent, a teacher, an Ivy League crony or a few nuns - bent down and helped us pick up our boots."
Thurgood Marshall
Starting right there from R. Verdi’s quotation, teachers should have self-confidence and believe that there are always new horizons to explore, or even discover. Those who believe that they know little are aware of the fact that an efficient teacher should always search for new things to succeed; and since knowledge is endless, they believe that what they know is very little when compared to what is left. In short, good teachers believe that there is always something new to learn, so to fulfill their restless desires they search and navigate throughout various sources where they have the opportunity to encounter the most updated knowledge. On the other hand, bad teachers think that they know more to the level that they gain pride and satisfaction, and looking for what they claim to own becomes absurd to them, so they stay where they are to discover after some time that they are falling through the cracks of the outdated.
ReplyDeleteAll your quotes are quite interesting Zahraa!
ReplyDeleteFirst of all, the first quote is so funny :)
The other quote I'd like to comment on is the one by Barzun. I belive this is what would keep a faithful determined teacher going: the true faith and passion in the fact that the real result of their efforts is a long term one!