More Teacher Appreciation Sayings And Quotations

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“To know that we know what we know, and that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.”
– Henry David Thoreau

“If you think you can do a thing, or think you can’t do a thing; you’re right.”
– Henry Ford

“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

“Education, then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of man….”
– Horace Mann

“It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.”
– Jacob Chanowski

“In teaching you cannot see the fruit of a day’s work. It is invisible and remains so, maybe for twenty years.”
– Jacques Barzun

“Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.”
– James Baldwin

“Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.”
– James Madison

“Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.”
– James Russell Lowell

“The principal goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing new things, not simply of repeating what other generations have done.”
– Jean Piaget

“You have two ears and two eyes and only one mouth. Because you will learn twice as much as what you will ever have to say.”
– Jeffrey Schultz

“If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn’t need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around.”
– Jim Rohn

“I know what I can know, and am not troubled about what I cannot know.”
– Johan Fichte

‘How do you know so much about everything?” was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the answer was ”By never being afraid or ashamed to ask questions as to anything of which I was ignorant.”
– John Abbott

“Words are a mirror of their times. By looking at the areas in which the vocabulary of a language is expanding fastest in a given period, we can form a fairly accurate impression of the chief preoccupations of society at that time and the points at which the boundaries of human endeavour are being advanced.”
– John Ayto

“The result of the educative process is capacity for further education.”
– John Dewey

The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.”
– John F. Kennedy

“So difficult it is to show the various meanings and imperfections of words when we have nothing else but words to do it with.”
– John Locke

“Part of the American myth is that people who are handed the skin of a dead sheep at graduating time think that it will keep their minds alive forever.”
– John Mason Brown

“Successful and unsuccessful people do not vary greatly in their abilities. They vary in their desires to reach their potential.”
– John Maxwell

“Life‘s a Dance You Learn As You Go!”
– John Mishael Montgomery

” If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.”
– John Quincy Adams

“Dictionary: Opinion presented as truth in alphabetical order.”
– John Ralston Saul

“It takes a great deal of living to get a little deal of learning.”
– John Ruskin

“Good teaching is more a giving of right questions than a giving of right answers.”
– Josef Albers

“To teach is to learn twice.”
– Joseph Joubert

“Knowledge is like money: the more he gets, the more he craves.”
– Josh Billings

“The task of the excellent teacher is to stimulate “apparently ordinary” people to unusual effort. The tough problem is not in identifying winners: it is in making winners out of ordinary people.”
– K. Patricia Cross

“The task of the excellent teacher is to stimulate ‘apparently ordinary’ people to unusual effort. The tough problem is not in identifying winners: it is in making winners out of ordinary people.”
– K. Patricia Cross

“What the teacher is, is more important than what he teaches.”
– Karl Menninger

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