Terry Pratchett Quotes

I could undertake to be an efficient pupil if it were possible to find an efficient teacher.

A teacher must believe in the value and interest of his subject as a doctor believes in health.

If we had in this room a hundred teachers, good teachers from good schools, and asked them to define the word education, there would be very little general agreement.

I am a big believer in education, because when I grew up in Austria - when I grew up in Austria I had a great education. I had great teachers.

I believe in teaching as a real job. I don't think it's a substitute for anything else. It's been shown to me that teachers can help, and the writing today is just as good as it was when I started out. Technology hasn't changed that.

The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.

I don’t believe curriculums are the key to education, I believe teachers are.

To teach is part of the very fabric of learning.

I had many good teachers, but only three of them were school teachers.

I love the classroom.

No group and no government can properly prescribe precisely what should constitute the body of knowledge with which true education is concerned.

I teach.

I always wanted to be a teacher.

The teacher that I was for decades, and that I still am in a certain way, wondered what was meant by the word education. I was truly dumbfounded at the very thought of dealing with such an essential and extensive subject.

I've always wanted to make teaching a part of my life.

Education is lacking in most of those who pontificate.

A lecture is an occasion when you numb one end to benefit the other.

One of my missions was to teach.

I'd never been a teacher before, and here I was starting my first day with these eager students. There was a shortage of teachers, and they had been without a math teacher for six months. They were so excited to learn math.

I've always felt that the obligation of teachers is to have a huge, broad overview and to provide a foundation course to the students. The long view of history is absolutely crucial.

I don't know anybody who said, 'I love that teacher, he or she gave a really good homework set,' or 'Boy, that was the best class I ever took because those exams were awesome.' That's not what people want to talk about. It's not what influences people in one profession or another.

That is the difference between good teachers and great teachers: good teachers make the best of a pupil's means; great teachers foresee a pupil's ends.

Education in the past has been too much inspiration and too little information.

Good teachers know how to bring out the best in students.

The teacher is the one who gets the most out of the lessons, and the true teacher is the learner.