Teachers - Quote

A good teacher can inspire hope, ignite the imagination, and instil a love of learning. - Brad Henry

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

A good teacher, like a good entertainer first must hold his audience’s attention, then he can teach his lesson. - John Henrik Clarke

A key to growing as a teacher is to keep company mainly with teachers who uplift you, whose presence inspire you and whose dedication drives you. - Robert John Meehan

A master can tell you what he expects of you. A teacher, though, awakens your own expectations. - Patricia Neal

A teacher affects eternity. He can never tell where his influence stops. - Henry Adams

A teacher has two jobs; fill young minds with knowledge, yes, but more important, give those minds a compass so that that knowledge doesn't go to waste. - Mr. Holland's Opus

A teacher is a compass that activates the magnets of curiosity, knowledge, and wisdom in the pupils. - Ever Garrison

A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary. - Thomas Carruthers

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 who loves learning earns the right and the ability to help others learn. - Ruth Beechick

A teacher’s purpose is not to create students in his own image, but to develop students who can create their own image. - Unknown

An instructor should exemplify the things he seeks to teach. It will be of great advantage if you yourself can do all you ask of your students and more. - Bruce Lee

An understanding heart is everything in a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feeling. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant ans for the soul of the child. - Carl Gustav Jung

Any teacher that can be replaced by a machine should be! - Arthur C. Clarke

Be an opener of doors for such as come after thee. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Be versed in ancient lore, and familiarize yourself with the modern; then may you become teachers. - Confucius

Compassionate teachers fill a void left by working parents who aren't able to devote enough attention to their children. Teachers don't just teach; they can be vital personalities who help young people to mature, to understand the world and to understand themselves. A good education consists of much more than useful facts and marketable skills. - Charles Platt

Don't try to fix the students, fix ourselves first. The good teacher makes the poor student good and teh good student superior. - Marva Collins

Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books. - John Lubbock

Education is the key to success in life, and teachers make a lasting impact in the lives of their students. - Solomon Ortiz 

Every child should have a caring adult in their lives. And that's not always a biological parent or family member. It may be a friend or neighbour. Often times it is a teacher. - Joe Manhin

Everyone who remembers his own education remembers teachers, not methods and techniques. The teacher is the heart of the educational system. - Sidney Hook

Everyone you meet has something to teach you. - Unknown

Everything that happens to you is your tacher. The secret is to learn to sit at the feet of your own life and be taught by it. - Polly B. Berends

First let a man teach himself, and then he will be taught by others. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

For every person who wants to teach there are approximately thirty people who don't want to lean much. - W. C. Stellar

Good teachers are costly, but bad teachers cost more. - Bob Talbert

Good teachers know how to bring out the best in students. - Charles Kuralt

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

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

I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers. - Khalil Gibran

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

I'm not a teacher: only a fellow traveler of whom you asked the way. I pointed ahead – ahead of myself as well as you. - George Bernard Shaw

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 their own. - Nikos Kazantzakis

It is always the teacher who must learn the most ... or else nothing real has happened in the exchange. - Kim Stanley Robinson

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

It's the student who makes the teacher, not the other way around. - Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Life itself is your teacher, and you are in a state of constant learning. - Bruce Lee

One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feeling. Curriculum is necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child. - Carl Jung

Teachers can change lives with just the right mix of chalk and challenges. - Joyce Meyer

Teachers open the door, but you enter by yourself. - Unknown

Teachers should guide without dictating, and participate without dominating. - C.B. Neblette

Teachers teach because they care. Teaching young people is what they do best. It requires long hours, patience, and care. - Horace Mann

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

Teachers, I believe, are the most responsible and important members of society because their professional efforts affect the fate of the earth. - Helen Caldicott

Teachers, who are really good create that environment where you can be very satisfied by the process of learning. If you do something and you find it a very satisfying experience then you want to do more of it. The great teachers somehow convey in their very attitude and their words and their actions and everything they do that this is an important thing you're learning. You end up wanting to do more of it and more of it and more of it. That's a real talent some people have to convey the importance of that and to reflect it back to the students. - Jeff Bezos

The average teacher explains complexity; the gifted teacher reveals simplicity. - Robert Brault

The best teachers are those who show you where to look, but don’t tell you what to see. - Alexandra Trentor

The best teachers teach from the heart, not from the book. - Unknown

The calling of the teacher. There is no craft more privileged. To awaken in another human being powers, dreams beyond one’s own; to induce in others a love for that which one loves; to make of one’s inward present their future; that is a threefold adventure like no other. - George Steiner

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

The job of an educator is to teach students to see the vitality in themselves. - Joseph Campbell

The key to fixing education is better teaching, and the key to better teaching is figuring out who can teach and who can't. - Jonathan Alter

The Master said, “A true teacher is one who, keeping the past alive, is also able to understand the present. - Confucius

The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires. - William Arthur Ward

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

The point is to develop the childlike inclination for play and the childlike desire for recognition and to guide the child over to important fields for society. Such a school demands from the teacher that he be a kind of artist in his province. - Albert Einstein

The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles but to irrigate deserts. - C.S. Lewis

The teacher is a sympathizing guide whose familiarity with the subjects to be learned enables him to direct the learner's efforts, to save him from the waste of time and strength, or needless or insuperable difficulties, and to keep him from mistaking truth for error. But no aid of school or teacher can change nature's modes in mind work, or take from the learner the lordly prerogative and need for knowing for himself. - John Milton

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

The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind. - Khalil Gibran

The teacher who transmits his meaning to the understanding of the other person, and impels that individual to action, he is the successful teacher. - Unknown

The teacher, however great, can never give his knowledge to the pupils …although …he can kindle the light if the oil is in the lamp. - Hazrat Inayat Khan

The teacher’s task is not to implant facts but to place the subject to be learned in front of the learner and, through sympathy, emotion, imagination and patience, to awaken in the learner the restless drive for answers and insights which enlarge the personal life and give it meaning. - Nathan M. Pusey

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 give you a little prod behind and you jump to the skies. - Robert Frost

The true aim of every one who aspires to be a teacher should be, not to impart his own opinions, but to kindle minds. - F. W. Robertson

The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. - Amos Bronson Alcott

The world of knowledge takes a crazy turn when teachers themselves are taught to learn. - Bertolt Brecht

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 honoured myself and the entire family of man by becoming a teacher. - Pat Conroy

These days, teachers have it rough. Kids can be hyperactive, disobedient, and obnoxious. It must feel like being locked in a room of drunk midgets. - Craig Ferguson

They inspire you, they entertain you, and you end up learning a ton even when you don’t know it. - Nicholas Sparks

Thought flows in terms of stories – stories about events, stories about people, and stories about intentions and achievements. The best teachers are the best story tellers. We learn in the form of stories. - Frank Smith

To make oneself interesting artificially, that is, interesting to those who have no interest in us, is indeed a very difficult task; and to arrest the attention hour after hour, and year after year, not of one, but of a multitude of persons who have nothing in common with us, not even years, is indeed a superhuman undertaking. Yet this is the task of the teacher, or, as he would say, his "art": to make this assembly of children whom he has reduced to immobility by discipline follow him with their minds, understand what he says, and learn; an internal action, which he cannot govern, as he governs the position of their bodies, but which he must win by making himself interesting, and by maintaining this interest. - Maria Montessori

We never completely escape the teachers of our childhood nor any of the patterns that formed us. - Frank Herbert

What is a teacher? I’ll tell you: it isn’t someone who teaches something, but someone who inspires the student to give of her best in order to discover what she already knows. - Paulo Coelho

What the teacher is, is more important than what he teaches. - Karl A. Menninger

When you pay attention, everything is your teacher. - Ezra Bayd

You are your own teacher. Looking for teachers can't solve your own doubts.Investigate yourself to find the truth - inside, not outside. Knowing yourself is most important. The heart is the only book worth reading. - Ajahn Chah

You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room. - Dr. Seuss

You don’t have to think too hard when you talk to teachers. - J.D. Salingera