Teachers - Quotes

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

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

Teaching is a calling too. And I’ve always thought that teachers in their way are holy – angels leading their flocks out of the darkness. - Jeannette Walls

Teaching is an art, not a science, principally because it involves human beings, their emotions and their values. - Gilbert Highet

Teaching is arousing and using the pupil's mind to form in it a desired conception of thought. - John Milton Gregory

Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition. - Jacques Barzun

Teaching is often thought of as something that comes rather naturally to people who know their subject. In general, it is thought that it is a simple process that produces simple outcomes, but ... it takes place in a complicated social institution, which is filled with diverse people. It is a fluid interplay of events. One cannot just know the subject and teach it, because the subjects themselves are ever changing. - M. H. Siddiqui

Teaching is one of the noblest of professions. It requires an adequate preparation and training, patience, devotion, and a deep sense of responsibility. Those who mould the human mind have wrought not for time, but for eternity. - Calvin Coolidge

Teaching is the only major occupation of man for which we have not yet developed tools that make an average person capable of competence and performance. In teaching we rely on the ‘naturals,’ the ones who somehow know how to teach. - Peter Drucker