Teacher's Day

My favorite quotations about teaching:


"If a doctor, lawyer, or dentist had 40 people in his office at one time, all of whom had different needs, and some of whom didn't want to be there and were causing trouble, and the doctor, lawyer, or dentist, without assistance, had to treat them all with professional excellence for nine months, then he might have some conception of the classroom teacher's job." ~Donald D. Quinn


"Teaching is the profession that teaches all the other professions."

"A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary." ~Thomas Carruthers

"A good teacher is like a candle - it consumes itself to light the way for others"

"Who dares to teach must never cease to learn." ~John Cotton Dana

"The secret of teaching is to appear to have known all your life what you just learned this morning"

"Teaching is the only major occupation of man for which we have not yet developed tools that make an average person capable of competence and performance. In teaching we rely on the 'naturals', the ones who somehow know how to teach." ~Peter Drucker

"Teachers are expected to reach unattainable goals with inadequate tools. The miracle is that at times they accomplish this impossible task." ~Haim G. Ginott


Happy teacher's day to all my collegues. We're together on this road, compañeros!

xxx,
teacher Bel