C. S. Lewis Quotes

The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.

Teachers who help to open young minds perform a duty which is as near sacred as I will admit.

Teaching is the royal road to learning.

To teach is part of the very fabric of learning.

I touch the future. I teach.

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 feel really good in the teacher role.

I want to work with kids. I would love to be a teacher.

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 have to be a teacher to my daughters.

Listen to my advice; I have some experience. In a way, it is me being a teacher, which is what I wanted to be. I still feel I could go into teaching. What is teaching but passing on your knowledge to those who are at the beginning? Some people are born with that gift.

You know, master classes are essentially extended Q&As. That's how I always approach them. I don't mean to downplay it. It's just that I never fancy myself as someone who is taking a class. 'Master class' insinuates a teacher, and I'm not one.

For me, 'educator' is the highest title that exists.

I call myself an educator.

In a manner of speaking. I certainly never want to lose my voice as an educator.

To me, the avocation of a teacher has something elevating and exciting. While surrounded by the young, one may always be doing good.

Teaching is in my bones. I love to teach.

Every child grows; everything depends on the teacher.

Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.

My first career was as a coach and a teacher.

I couldn't think of anything less appealing than molding the minds of tomorrow's leaders.

Teachers are out there with a very difficult job, which they pursue with tireless dedication.

My dear, the duty that devolved wholly on you in my absence of guiding and expanding the minds of our dear children is a laborious one and a responsible one.

The duties of a teacher are neither few nor small, but they elevate the mind and give energy to the character.

A good teacher must know the rules; a good pupil, the exceptions.