Teachers Day Quotes, Sayings about Teachers

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

The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards - Anatole France.

Those who educate children well are more to be honored than parents, for these only gave life, those the art of living well - Aristotle.

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

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

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

You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him discover it in himself - Galileo.

Teachers are expected to reach unattainable goals with inadequate tools. The miracle is that at times they accomplish this impossible task - Haim G. Ginott.

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

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

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

We expect teachers to handle teenage pregnancy, substance abuse, and the failings of the family. Then we expect them to educate our children - John Sculley.

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

The task of the excellent teacher is to stimulate “apparently ordinary” people to unusual effort. The tough problem is not in identifying winners: it is in making winners out of ordinary people - K. Patricia Cross.

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

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

We teachers can only help the work going on, as servants wait upon a master - Maria Montessori.

The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery - Mark Van Doren.

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

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

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

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

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


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4 Responses

  1. chiranjeevi.G.R Says:

    soul stirring and heart touching indeed…..

  2. madhuri Says:

    these quotes rock….!!!

  3. shyam benerji Says:

    nice quotes… inspiring.

  4. SANJAY KHANNA Says:

    thanks for ‘great collection’

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