Meaningful Quotes about Teachers The best teachers teach from the heart, not from the book. - Author Unknown
Who dares to teach must never cease to learn. - John Cotton Dana
There are three good reasons to be a teacher - June, July, and August. - Author Unknown
A teacher should have maximal authority, and minimal power. - Thomas Szaz
To teach is to learn twice. - Joseph Joubert
The secret of teaching is to appear to have known all your life what you just learned this morning. - Author Unknown
The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without his teacher. - Elbert Hubbard
Teachers are expected to reach unattainable goals with inadequate tools. The miracle is that at times they accomplish this impossible task. - Haim G. Ginott
The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery. - Mark Van Doren
The dream begins with a teacher who believes in you, who tugs and pushes and leads you to the next plateau, sometimes poking you with a sharp stick called "truth." - Dan Rather
In teaching you cannot see the fruit of a day's work. It is invisible and remains so, maybe for twenty years. - Jacques Barzun
Teaching is the profession that teaches all the other professions. - Author Unknown
If a doctor, lawyer, or dentist had 40 people in his office at one time, all of whom had different needs, and some of whom didn't want to be there and were causing trouble, and the doctor, lawyer, or dentist, without assistance, had to treat them all with professional excellence for nine months, then he might have some conception of the classroom teacher's job. - Donald D. Quinn
A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary. - Thomas Carruthers
Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater. - Gail Godwin
A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron. - Horace Mann
A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops. - Henry Brooks Adams
A good teacher is like a candle - it consumes itself to light the way for others. - Author Unknown
The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-distrust. He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him. He will have no disciple. - Amos Bronson Alcott
A good teacher is a master of simplification and an enemy of simplism. - Louis A. Berman
We expect teachers to handle teenage pregnancy, substance abuse, and the failings of the family. Then we expect them to educate our children. - John Sculley
Good teachers are costly, but bad teachers cost more. - Bob Talbert
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires. - William Arthur Ward
The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself. - Edward Bulwer-Lytton
A teacher's purpose is not to create students in his own image, but to develop students who can create their own image. - Author Unknown
What the teacher is, is more important than what he teaches. - Karl Menninger
Teaching should be full of ideas instead of stuffed with facts. - Author Unknown
Teaching is leaving a vestige of one self in the development of another. And surely the student is a bank where you can deposit your most precious treasures. - Eugene P. Bertin
A teacher is a compass that activates the magnets of curiosity, knowledge, and wisdom in the pupils. - Terri Guillemets
Teachers who inspire know that teaching is like cultivating a garden, and those who would have nothing to do with thorns must never attempt to gather flowers. - Author Unknown
Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition. - Jacques Barzun I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.
Author: Alexander the Great
One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child. - Carl Jung
The task of the excellent teacher is to stimulate "apparently ordinary" people to unusual effort. The tough problem is not in identifying winners: it is in making winners out of ordinary people. - K. Patricia Cross Education
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