"There are three things to remember when teaching: know your stuff; know whom you are stuffing; and then stuff them elegantly." Lola May
"It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education." Albert Einstein
"Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know."Daniel Boorstin
"Good teaching is one-forth preparation and three-fourths theater." Gail Godwin
"Children are like wet cement. Whatever falls on them makes an impression." Dr. Haim Ginott
"Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality. Beatrix Potter
"My grandmother wanted me to have an education, so she kept me out of school." Margaret Mead
We're going to have the best-educated American people in the world. Dan Quayle
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Funny Teacher Quotes & Funny Education Quotes
Often, when I am reading a good book, I stop and thank my teacher. That is, I used to, until she got an unlisted number.
Author Unknown
The only reason I always try to meet and know the parents better is because it helps me to forgive their children.
Louis Johannot
Quite frankly, teachers are the only profession that teach our children.
Dan Quayle
The secret of teaching is to appear to have known all your life what you learned this afternoon.
Anonymous
To be good is noble, but to teach others how to be good is nobler — and less trouble.
Mark Twain
We spend the first twelve months of our children's lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve telling them to sit down and shut up.
Phyllis Diller
A cross-eyed teacher can keep twice the number of children in order better than any other teacher, because the pupils do not know who she's looking at.
John R. Kemble, 1902
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