Teacher Qualities Quotes

I think the best teachers had a real interest in the subject they were teaching and a love for children. Some of the teachers were just doing their job, but others had that little extra. They really cared about children and they wore pretty dresses.

People think of teachers who are born to teach, and you think of all these charismatic folks. Some of the most successful teachers are some of the least charismatic, interestingly. But they have a gift of figuring out what motivates people.

The best teacher of children, in brief, is one who is essentially childlike.

If you look back on all the teachers that you liked, I am sure you will find they were very entertaining.

Numerous are the academic professors, but rare are wise and noble teachers.

The most effective teachers embody the teaching they give out.

I think to be a good teacher you need an enormous amount of patience and I'm a very impatient person.

When you study great teachers... you will learn much more from their caring and hard work than from their style.

I had an inspirational teacher at my junior school: Peter Nixon. He was enthusiastic, knowledgeable and slightly scary - a good combination for a teacher.

I think the best teachers had a real interest in the subject they were teaching and a love for children.

Benevolence alone will not make a teacher, nor will learning alone do it. The gift of teaching is a peculiar talent, and implies a need and a craving in the teacher himself.

A teacher, therefore, who would think that he could prepare himself for his mission through study alone would be mistaken. The first thing required of a teacher is that he be rightly disposed for his task.

I have always loved music; whoso has skill in this art, is of a good temperament, fitted for all things. We must teach music in schools; a schoolmaster ought to have skill in music, or I would not regard him; neither should we ordain young men as preachers, unless they have been well exercised in music

Great teachers emanate out of knowledge, passion and compassion.

I had some great English teachers. One of my favorite - her name was Linda Janoff - was wonderful and so irreverent and so smart and encouraging.

What all good teachers have in common, however, is that they set high standards for their students and do not settle for anything less.