Teachers Day Quotes

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


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






In teaching, you cannot see the fruit of a day's work. It is invisible and remains so, maybe for twenty years.
Jacques Barzun



The best teachers teach from the heart, not from the book.
Anonymous

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

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.
Anonymous

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



It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.
Albert Einstein



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



A teacher who can arouse a feeling for one single good action, for one single good poem, accomplishes more than he who fills our memory with rows and rows of natural objects, classified with name and form.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe



Your role as a leader is even more important than you might imagine. You have the power to help people become winners.
Ken Blanchard



Education is not the filling of a pail but the lighting of a fire.
William Butler Yeats



A hundred years from now, it will not matter what kind of car I drove, what kind of house I lived in, how much money I had in the bank, but the world may be a better place because I made a difference in the life of a child
Forest Witchcraft


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

A good teacher is like a candleit consumes itself to light the way for others. -Anonymous
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.
Anonymous

The average teacher explains complexity; the gifted teacher reveals simplicity.
Robert Brault



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

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

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.
Anonymous