- Teaching is a very noble profession that shapes the character, caliber, and future of an individual. If the people remember me as a good teacher that will be the biggest honor for me. – A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
- 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
In the practice of tolerance, one’s enemy is the best teacher. – Dalai Lama
- Love is a better teacher than duty. – Albert Einstein
Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose. – Bill Gates
- If a country is to be corruption free and become a nation of beautiful minds, I strongly feel there are three key societal members who can make a difference. They are the father, the mother and the teacher. – Abdul Kalam
- Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important. – Bill Gates
It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge. – Albert Einstein
- A good teacher is like a candle – it consumes itself to light the way for others. -Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
- Every teacher is a reflection of his or her students. -Chris Walker
- What the teacher is, is more important than what he teaches. -Karl Menninger
- A teacher’s job is to take a bunch of live wires and see that they are well-grounded. -Martin.
- Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.- Margaret Mead
- 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 gifted teacher is not only prepared to meet the needs of today’s child, but is also prepared to foresee the hopes and dreams in every child’s future. -Robert John Meehan.
If we are truly effective teachers, then we are creating autonomous, independent, and self directed learners, not just successful test takers.– Robert John Meehan.
- A good teacher can inspire hope, ignite the imagination, and instill a love of learning.-Brad Henry.
In learning you will teach and in teaching you will learn – Phil Collins.
- A teacher is a compass that activates the magnets of curiosity, knowledge, and wisdom in the pupils.- Ever Garrison
The job of an educator is to teach students to see the vitality in themselves.- Joseph Campbell
- Great teachers empathize with kids, respect them, and believe that each one has something special that can be built upon. -Ann Lieberman
- 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.
The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching. -Aristotle
- 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.
- 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.
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
- A great teacher who is full of excitement and love for her students can make all the difference in their lives.- Deval Patrick
- 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
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires William A. -Ward
- One mark of a great educator is the ability to lead students out to new places where even the educator has never been. -Thomas Groome
- A good teacher, like a good entertainer first must hold his audience’s attention, then he can teach his lesson. – John Henrik Clarke.
Teachers have three loves: love of learning, love of learners, and love of bringing the first two loves together. -Scott Hayden.
- A good teacher must be able to put himself in the place of those who find learning hard. – Eliphas Levi.
- Teachers can change lives with just the right mix of chalk and challenges. -Joyce Meyer
- The average teacher explains complexity; the gifted teacher reveals simplicity. -Robert Brault
The true aim of everyone who aspires to be a teacher should be, not to impart his own opinions, but to kindle minds. -W. Robertson.
- There is no system in the world or any school in the country that is better than its teachers. Teachers are the lifeblood of the success of schools. – Ken Robinson.
- A mater can tell you what he expects of you. A teacher though awakens your own expectations. Patricia Neal
The greatest sign of success for a teacher is to be able to say: The children are now working as if I did not exist. – Maria Montessori
- The wise teacher knows that 55 minutes of work plus 5 minutes laughter are worth twice as much as 60 minutes of unvaried work. -Gilbert Highet.
- Education is the key to success in life, and teachers make a lasting impact in the lives of their students. -Solomon Ortiz.
- The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts. -S. Lewis
- A teacher must believe in the value and interest of his subject as a doctor believes in health. -Gilbert Highet
- No man can be a good teacher unless he has feelings of warm affection toward his pupils and a genuine desire to impart to them what he believes to be of value. – Bertrand Russell
- Teachers teach because they care. Teaching young people is what they do best. It requires long hours, patience, and care. -Horace Mann
That is the difference between good teachers and great teachers: good teachers make the best of a pupil’s means; great teachers foresee a pupil’s ends. -Maria Callas.
- In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something else. -Lee Iacocca.
- 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 Martin