Top 50 Teacher Quotes


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.

Aristotle

The effects you will have on your students are infinite and currently unknown; you will possibly shape the way they proceed in their careers, the way they will vote, the way they will behave as partners and spouses, the way they will raise their kids.

Donna Quesada

The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.

William A. Ward


There are two kinds of teachers: the kind that fill you with so much quail shot that you can't move, and the kind that just gives you a little prod behind and you jump to the skies.

Robert Frost

Good teachers are those who know how little they know. Bad teachers are those who think they know more than they don't know.

R. Verdi

The teachers who get “burned out” are not the ones who are constantly learning, which can be exhilarating, but those who feel they must stay in control and ahead of the students at all times.

Frank Smith

Because teachers, no matter how kind, no matter how friendly, are sadistic and evil to the core.

Heather Brewer


There's no word in the language I revere more than 'teacher.' My heart sings when a kid refers to me as his teacher, and it always has. I've honored myself and the entire family of man by becoming a teacher.

Pat Conroy


When you study great teachers... you will learn much more from their caring and hard work than from their style.

William Glasser

The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence.

Amos Bronson Alcott


You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul.

Swami Vivekananda

A teacher who loves learning earns the right and the ability to help others learn.

Ruth Beechick

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.

Albert Einstein


What the teacher is, is more important than what he teaches.

Karl A. Menninger

Teaching kids to count is fine, but teaching them what counts is best.

Bob Talbert


The teachers complain that the students today are all lazy, ignorant, and stupid. But the truth is that you're smarter than they are. You're not even old enough to drive and you already know that none of this matters.

Charles Benoit

Education is not to reform students or amuse them or to make them expert technicians. It is to unsettle their minds, widen their horizons, inflame their intellects, teach them to think straight, if possible.

Robert M. Hutchins


Teachers knew every one of the students, their secrets, their grades, their home situations. And all the students knew the teachers. It was like teachers were people who finally were the most popular at school.

Victoria Kahler


I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.

Lily Tomlin

Make a difference, change the game for the better, leave a legacy, be a guide that someone else can follow and make better, and then someone else will follow that and make that better.

Carlos Wallace



I am not a teacher, but an awakener.

Robert Frost


One of the first things we learn from our teachers is discernment: the ability to tell truth from fiction, to know when we have lost our center and how to find it again. Discernment is also one of the last things we learn, when we feel our paths diverge and we must separate from our mentors in order to stay true to ourselves.

Anne Hill

As a general rule, teachers teach more by what they are than by what they say.

Unknown

The future of the world is in my classroom today, a future with the potential for good or bad ... Several future presidents are learning from me today; so are the great writers of the next decades, and so are all the so-called ordinary people who will make the decisions in a democracy. I must never forget these same young people could be the thieves and murderers of the future. Only a teacher? Thank God I have a calling to the greatest profession of all! I must be vigilant every day, lest I lose one fragile opportunity to improve tomorrow.

Ivan Welton Fitzwater

A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.

Thomas Carruthers

Teachers should guide without dictating, and participate without dominating.

C.B. Neblette

Most of us end up with no more than five or six people who remember us. Teachers have thousands of people who remember them for the rest of their lives.

Andy Rooney

Don’t try to fix the students, fix ourselves first. The good teacher makes the poor student good and the good student superior.

Marva Collins


The best teachers are the ones who give you a hard time, they may not intend it, but you can intend to learn!!!

Harrish Sairaman


Teachers affect eternity; no one can tell where their influence stops.

Henry Brooks Adams


Great teachers empathize with kids, respect them, and believe that each one has something special that can be built upon.

Ann Lieberman

Teachers are mind engineers! Teachers are life directors! Don’t ever undermine a teacher!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

The most important knowledge teachers need to do good work is a knowledge of how students are experiencing learning and perceiving their teacher’s actions.

Steven Brookfield

Anyone who does anything to help a child in his life is a fredrogershero to me.

Fred Rogers

You can teach a student a lesson for a day; but if you can teach him to learn by creating curiosity, he will continue the learning process as long as he lives.

Clay P. Bedford


I'd be a teacher if there was something to teach. I'd be a student if there was something to learn.

Marty Rubin

There are three things to remember when teaching: know your stuff; know whom you are stuffing; and then stuff them elegantly.

Lola May

One child, one teacher, one book, one pen can change the world.

Malala Yousafzai

Teaching is a profession where you treat each child as you would treat your own - you teach them with their best interest in mind.

Hyacinth Mottley


Teaching is the greatest act of optimism.

Colleen Wilcox


A teacher is no longer just a teacher, but a tutor, therapist, guru, nurse practitioner, Dutch uncle, minister without portfolio and cop on the beat.

David McCullough Jr


The average teacher explains complexity; the gifted teacher reveals simplicity.

Robert Brault

The dream begins, most of the time, with a teacher who believes in you, who tugs and pushes and leads you on to the next plateau, sometimes poking you with a sharp stick called truth.

Dan Rather


I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.

John Steinbeck


A good teacher is a good student first. By repeating his lessons, he acquires excellence.

M. K. Soni


A good teacher is like a candle – it consumes itself to light the way for others.

Unknown

The test of a good teacher is not how many questions he can ask his pupils that they will answer readily, but how many questions he inspires them to ask him which he finds it hard to answer.

Alice Wellington Rollins

A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.

Horace Mann

Ideal teachers are those who use themselves as bridges over which they invite their students to cross, then having facilitated their crossing, joyfully collapse, encouraging them to create bridges of their own.

Nikos Kazantzakis


Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.

Unknown


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.

Unknown

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