The impending teacher shortage is the most critical education issue we will face in the next decade.
A teacher is a person who never says anything once.
In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something else.
If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself.
The teacher is the one who gets the most out of the lessons, and the true teacher is the learner.
Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.
You know how to tell if the teacher is hung over? Movie Day.
The five steps in teaching an employee new skills are preparation, explanation, showing, observation and supervision.
There are two kinds of teachers: the kind that fill you with so much quail shot that you can’t move, and the kind that just gives you a little prod behind and you jump to the skies.
What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.
When people lack teachers, their tendencies are not corrected; when they do not have ritual and moral principles, then their lawlessness is not controlled.
Those who know how to think need no teachers.
You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room.
A self-taught man usually has a poor teacher and a worse student.
We may have forgotten how to feel. Nobody is teaching us how to live happily ever after, as we’ve heard in fairy tales.
Please stop teaching my children that everyone gets a trophy just for participating. What is this, the Nobel Prize? Not everybody gets a trophy.
The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.
Teachers believe they have a gift for giving; it drives them with the same irrepressible drive that drives others to create a work of art or a market or a building.
I think teaching should be an exalted profession, not a picked-on profession.
Catholic schools in our Nation’s education have been paramount in teaching the values that we as parents seek to instill in our children.
I think the teaching profession contributes more to the future of our society than any other single profession.
Every man who rises above the common level has received two educations: the first from his teachers; the second, more personal and important, from himself.
It is by teaching that we teach ourselves, by relating that we observe, by affirming that we examine, by showing that we look, by writing that we think, by pumping that we draw water into the well.
It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn.
Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.
