Teacher Quotes

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

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 Menninger

The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
~ Cicero

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

This is on of my most favorite teacher quotes and a perfect quote for teacher’s day!
I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.
~Alexander the Great

A schoolmaster should have an atmosphere of awe, and walk wonderingly, as if he was amazed at being himself.
~Newton D. Baker

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 is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
~Thomas Carruthers

One good teacher in a lifetime may sometimes change a delinquent into a solid citizen.
~Philip Wylie

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

Who dares to teach must never cease to learn.
~John C. Dana

If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself.
~Confucius

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

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

I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
~ Socrates

Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself.
~Chinese Proverb

The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself.
~Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
~H.G. Wells

Without teacher appreciation there can’t be any student progress.
~Theresa Grimm

Teaching is the profession that teaches all the other professions.
~Author Unknown

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

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 Alcott

Experience is a dear teacher, but fools will learn at no other.
~Benjamin Franklin

Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose.
~Bill Gates

What a blind person needs is not a teacher but another self.
~Helen Keller

Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
~Gail Godwin

A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.
~Henry Brooks Adams

A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.
~Henry Brooks Adams

What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.
~George Bernard Shaw

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

When you teach your son, you teach your son’s son.
~The Talmud

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

A teacher should have maximal authority, and minimal power.
~Thomas Szaz

To teach is to learn twice.
~Joseph Joubert

To teach is to learn twice over.
~Joseph Joubert

Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
~Hector Berlioz

If you think your teacher is tough, wait until you get a boss. He doesn’t have tenure.
~Bill Gates

When you teach your son, you teach your son’s son.
~The Talmud

A good teacher is a master of simplification and an enemy of simplism.
~Louis Berman

Teacher appreciation makes the world of education go around.
~Helen Peters

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

We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.
~ Cynthia Ozick

There are two good reasons to be a teacher – July, and August!
~Author Unknown’s one of our funny teacher quotes.

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

Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre.
~Gail Godwin

If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
~Tryon Edwards

We cannot hold a torch to light another’s path without brightening our own.
~Ben Sweetland

Grammar speaks; dialectics teach us truth; rhetoric gives colouring to our speech; music sings; arithmetic numbers; geometry weighs and measures;
astronomy teaches us to know the stars.
~Latin Maxim

To know how to suggest is the great art of teaching.
~Henri Frederic Amiel

We learn by teaching.
~James Howell

Teaching is the profession that teaches all the other professions.
~Anonymous

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

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

Teaching should be full of ideas instead of stuffed with facts.
~Anonymous

By viewing the old we learn the new
~Chinese Proverb

A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.
~Henry Adams

Good teaching is more a giving of right questions than a giving of right answers.
~Josef Albers

The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influences…
~Amos Alcott

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.
~Tennyson

I am not a teacher, but an awakener.
~Robert Frost

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 a cold iron.
~ Horace Mann

Acquire new knowledge whilst thinking over the old, and you may become a teacher of others.
~ Confucius

The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.
~Alvin Toffler

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

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