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- “A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.” Henry Brooks Adams
- “What a teacher is, is more important than what he teaches.” Karl Menninger
- “The best teachers teach from the heart, not from the book.” Unknown
- “The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.” Mark Twain (Top Quotes for Teachers)
- “Man’s mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.” Oliver Wendell Holmes
- “The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life.” Plato
- “Intelligence plus character – that is the goal of true education.” Martin Luther King Jr. (Top 50 Martin Luther King Jr. Quotes)
- “Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.” William James
- “Example isn’t another way to teach, it is the only way to teach.” Albert Einstein (Top Albert Einstein Quotes)
- “I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.” Mark Twain (Top Mark Twain Quotes)
- “A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.” Thomas Carruthers
- “He who opens a school door, closes a prison.” Victor Hugo
- “Teaching is the greatest act of optimism.” Colleen Wilcox
- “Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.” Chinese Proverb
- “The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without his teacher.” Elbert Hubbard
- “Teachers who inspire realize there will always be rocks in the road ahead of us.” Unknown
- “Good teachers are costly, but bad teachers cost more.” Bob Talbert
- “A master can tell you what he expects of you. A teacher, though, awakens your own expectation.” Chinese Proverb
- “He who dares must never cease to learn.” John Cotton Dana
- “The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.” William Arthur Ward
- “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
- “Children are 1/3rd of our population and all of our future.” Select Panel for the Promotion of Child Health 1981
- “I am learning all the time. The tombstone will be my diploma.” Ertha Kitt
- “To teach is to learn twice.” Joseph Joubert
- “Teaching should be full of ideas instead of stuffed with facts.” Author Unknown
- “We need to understand that every time an elementary teacher captures the imagination of a child through the arts or music of language this nation gets a little stronger.” Richard Riley, former Secretary of Education
- “All the world is a laboratory for the inquiring mind.” Martin H. Fischer
- “They [rocks] will be stumbling blocks or stepping stones; it all depends on how we use them.” Unknown
- “Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or self-confidence.” Robert Frost
- “In teaching you cannot see the fruit of a days work. It is invisible and remains so, maybe for 20 years.” Jacques Barzun
- “One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of a child.” Carl Jung
- “A true teacher is one who, keeping the past alive, is also able to understand the present.” Confucius
- “You can teach a student a lesson for a day; but if you can teach him to learn, he will continue the learning process.” Clay P. Bedford
- “A master can tell you what he expects of you. A teacher…awakens your own expectations.” Patricia Neal
- “Teaching is leaving a vestige of oneself in the development of another.” Eugene P. Bertin
- “The student is a bank where you can deposit your most precious treasures.” Eugene P. Bertin
- “A teacher is a compass that activates the magnets of curiosity, knowledge, and wisdom in the pupils.” Ever Garrison
- “The dream begins with a teacher who believes in you… who tugs and pushes and leads you to the next plateau.” Dan Rather
- “We expect teachers to handle teen pregnancy, abuse, and failings of the family. Then we expect them to educate our children.” John Sculley
- “The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.” Mark Van Doren
- “The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn.“ John Lubbock
- “A good teacher is like a candle – it consumes itself to light the the way for others.” Author Unknown
- “When you study great teachers… you will learn much more from their caring and hard work than from their style.” William Glasser
- “You learn something every day if you pay attention.” Ray LeBlond
- “Teachers who inspire know that teaching is like cultivating a garden.” Author Unknown
- “Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.” Aristotle
- “If you’re going to be thinking, you may as well think big.” Donald Trump
- “Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others.” Jonathan Swift
- “The giving of love is an education in itself.” Eleanor Roosevelt
- “Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.” Gail Godwin
- “I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teachers for living well.” Alexander the Great
- “You can’t stop a teacher when they want to do something. They just do it.” J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
- “Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.” Jacques Barzun
- “He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.” Henry Ward Beecher
- “The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.” Benjamin Disraeli
- “Teachers appreciate being appreciated, for teacher appreciation is their highest award.” William Prince
- “Life is about using the whole box of crayons.” RuPaul
- “Every survival kit should include a sense of humor.” Author Unknown
- “It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.” Albert Einstein (Top Albert Einstein Quotes)
- “The job of a teacher is to teach students to see the vitality in themselves.” Joseph Campbell
- “If a doctor, lawyer, or dentist had 40 people in his office at one time, all of whom had different needs, and some whom didn’t want to be there and were causing trouble, and the doctor, lawyer, or dentist, without assistance, had to treat them all with professional excellence for nine months, the he might have some conception of the classroom teacher’s job.” Donald D. Quinn
- “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
- “We are all special cases.” Albert Camus
- “Teachers are expected to reach unattainable goals with inadequate tools. The miracle is that at times they accomplish this task.” Haim Ginott
- “Personal relationships are the fertile soil from which all advancement, all success, all achievement, in real life grows.” Ben Stein
- “Teacher appreciation makes the world of education go around.” Helen Peters
- “Mighty things from small beginnings grown.” John Dryden
- “I can live two months on a good compliment.” Mark Twain (Top Mark Twain Quotes)
- “Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.” Plato
- “The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.” Eric Hoffer