Teacher's Day Quotes

• A good teacher is like a candle - it consumes itself to light the way for others. --Author Unknown
• Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition. -Jacques Barzun
• Good teachers are costly, but bad teachers cost more. --Bob Talbert
• 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 Bronson Alcott
• Teaching is leaving a vestige of one self in the development of another. And surely the student is a bank where you can deposit your most precious treasures. --Eugene P. Bertin
• The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires. --William Arthur Ward
• 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
• What the teacher is, is more important than what he teaches. --Karl Menningervv
• The dream begins with a teacher who believes in you, who tugs and pushes and leads you to the next plateau, sometimes poking you with a sharp stick called "truth." --Dan Rather
• In teaching you cannot see the fruit of a day's work. It is invisible and remains so, maybe for twenty years. --Jacques Barzun
• Teaching is the profession that teaches all the other professions. --Author Unknown
• The best teachers teach from the heart, not from the book. --Author Unknown
• "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." --Henry Brooks Adams
• "Teachers, I believe, are the most responsible and important members of society because their professional efforts affect the fate of the earth." --Helen Caldicott, author and peace activist
• Better than a thousand days of diligent study is one day with a great teacher." --Japanese proverb
• "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
• A gifted teacher is as rare as a gifted doctor, and makes far less money --Author unknown