Great quotes about teaching

1. “To be good is noble, but to teach others how to be good is nobler – and less trouble.” Mark Twain

2. “A poor surgeon hurts one person at a time. A poor teacher hurts thirty.” Ernest Boyer

3. “To me the sole hope of human salvation lies in teaching.” George Bernard Shaw.

4. “Teachers are people who used to like children.”

5 . “Teaching is the profession that creates all the others.”

One activity I like to do with quotes like these (not necessarily quotes about teaching, but quotes in general) is to give a class half of the quotes. Students then work in pairs to finish them however they fancy. We go through their quotes, and then go through the originals. It’s a great five-minute filler or finisher.