Back to school quotes for teachers, too.
- Home computers are being called upon to perform many new functions, including the consumption of homework formerly eaten by the dog. ~Doug Larson
- The founding fathers... provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called education. School is where you go between when your parents can't take you and industry can't take you. ~John Updike, The Centaur, 1963
- As long as there are tests, there will be prayer in schools. ~Author Unknown
- 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
- A professor is someone who talks in someone else's sleep. ~W.H. Auden
- It doesn't make much difference what you study, as long as you don't like it. ~Finley Peter Dunne
- You can get all A's and still flunk life. ~Walker Percy
- Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants. ~John W. Gardner
- Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know. ~Daniel J. Boorstin, Democracy and Its Discontents
- When the student is ready, the master appears. ~Buddhist Proverb
- You learn something every day if you pay attention. ~Ray LeBlond
- Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere. ~Chinese Proverb
- I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught. ~Winston Churchill
- The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live. ~Mortimer Adler
- The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn. ~Alvin Toffler
- Learn as much as you can while you are young, since life becomes too busy later. ~Dana Stewart Scott