You can pay people to teach, but you can’t pay them to care.

—Marva Collins

Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.   —Gail Godwin

The greatest sign of success for a teacher … is to be able to say, “The children are now working as if I did not exist.”

—Maria Montessori

I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.      —John Steinbeck

Teaching kids to count is fine, but teaching them what counts is best.              —Bob Talbert

Very few men are wise by their own counsel, or learned by their own teaching. For he that was only taught by himself, had a fool for a master.                                                                                 —Ben Jonson

We learn to do something by doing it. There is no other way… What we can best learn from good teachers is how to teach ourselves better.                                                                                      —John Holt

Every truth had four corners: as a teacher I give you one corner, and it is for you to find the other three. —Confucius

Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one’s self-esteem. That is why young children, before they are aware of their own self-importance, learn so easily and why older persons, especially if vain or important, cannot learn at all.

—Thomas Szasz

A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.      —John Ciardi

Sixty years ago I knew everything. Now, I know nothing. Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.            —Will Durant

What we must decide is perhaps how we are valuable, rather than how valuable we are.            —F. Scott Fitzgerald

It is not enough to do your best. You must know what to do, and then do your best.       —W. Edwards Deming