60 Best Teacher Quotes & Sayings
Teacher is a person who teaches, especially in a school.
1. I am not a teacher, but an awakener.
Robert Frost
2. A good teacher can inspire hope, ignite the imagination, and instill a love of learning.
Brad Henry
3. A good teacher is a doctor who heals ignorance. And an artist who inspires creativity.
Anonymous
4. A good teacher is like a candle – it consumes itself to light the way for others.
Anonymous
5. A teacher … takes a hand, opens a mind, touches a heart and shapes the future.
Anonymous
6. A teacher affects eternity he can never tell where his influence stops.
Henry Adams
7. A teacher doesn't need to be a trained artist, or to be able to draw, in order to present powerful art lessons in their classroom…
Jill Faison
8. A teacher ignites the fire that fuels a student's thirst for knowledge, curiosity and wisdom.
Anonymous
9.A teacher is a compass that activates the magnets of curiosity, knowledge and wisdom in the pupils.
Ever Garrison
10. A teacher plants the seeds of knowledge, sprinkles them with love, and patiently nurtures their growth to produce tomorrow's dreams.
Anonymous
11. A teacher presents the past, reveals the present and creates the future.
Anonymous
12. A teacher takes a hand opens a mind and touches a heart.
Anonymous
13. Better than a thousand days of diligent study is one day with a great teacher.
Anonymous
14. Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.
Anonymous
15. Good teachers are the reason why ordinary students dream to do extraordinary things.
Anonymous
16. Good teachers have teeth marks on their tongues.
Anonymous
17. Good teachers know how to bring out the best in students.
Charles Kuralt
18. Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre.
Gail Godwin
19. Great teachers engineer learning experiences that put students in the driver's seat and then get out of the way.
Ben Johnson
20. I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.
Lily Tomlin
21. I was always keen to get involved in the school drama productions and was a member of the school choir. I was lucky to have attended schools that took music …
Bronagh Gallagher
22. If kids come to us from strong, healthy functioning families, it makes our job easier. If they do not come to us from strong, healthy, functioning families, it makes …
Barbara Colorose
23. If you can read this, thank a teacher.
Anonymous
24. I'm worried that students will take their obedient place in society and look to become successful cogs in the wheel – let the wheel spin them around as it wants …
Howard Zinn
25. It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.
Albert Einstein
26. It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression joy and knowledge.
Anonymous
27. I've come to a frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element in the classroom. It's my personal approach that creates the climate. It's my daily mood that …
Haim G. Ginott
28. Librarians have always been among the most thoughtful and helpful people. They are teachers without a classroom. No libraries no progress.
Willard Scott
29. My teacher gave me the best gift of all, Believing in me.
Anonymous
30. No I'm not a superhero, I'm something even more powerful… I Am A Teacher. I don't need a cape, because I'm lifted by the amazing and inspiring kids I teach.
Anonymous
31. One good teacher in a lifetime may sometimes change a delinquent into a solid citizen.
Philip Wylie
32. Teachers are those who help find strengths, drive away tears, overpower demons and conquer fears.
Anonymous
33. Teachers can change lives with just the right mix of chalk and challenges.
Joyce Meyer
34. Teachers Change the World One Child at a Time.
Anonymous
35. Teachers encourage Minds to think, Hands to create and Hearts to Love.
Anonymous
36. Teachers have three loves love of learning, love of learners, and the love of bringing the first two loves together.
Scott Hayden
37. Teachers make a difference.
Anonymous
38. Teachers Make All Other Professions Possible.
Anonymous
39. Teachers open doors, but you must enter by yourself.
Anonymous
40. Teachers who inspire know that teaching is like cultivating a garden, and those who would have nothing to do with thorns must never attempt to …
Anonymous
41. Teachers who love teaching, teach children to love learning.
Anonymous
42. Teaching reading is rocket science.
Louisa Moats
43. The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.
Mark Van Doren
44. The best teachers are artists who know the science of teaching.
Richard Bankert
45. The best teachers are those who show you where to look, but don't tell you what to see.
Alexandra K.Trenfor
46. The best teachers don't give you the answer. they just point the way and let you make your own choices, your own mistakes. that way you get all the glory…
Mr. Schuester
47. The best teachers teach from the heart, not from the book.
Anonymous
48. The good teacher makes the poor student good and the good student superior.
Marva Collins
49. The great want of our race is perfect educators to train new-born minds, who are infallible teachers of what is right and true.
Catharine Beecher
50. The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
William Arthur Ward
51. The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
William Arthur Word
52. These days, many well-meaning school districts bring together teachers, coaches, curriculum supervisors, and a cast of thousands to determine what skills your …
Rafe Esquith
53. Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them.
Anonymous
54. To the world you may be just a teacher but to your students you are a Hero.
Anonymous
55. To the world you may be just a teacher, but to your students you are a star.
Anonymous
56. True teachers are those who use themselves as bridges over which they invite their students to cross; then, having facilitated their crossing, joyfully collapse, …
Nikos Kazantzakis
57. We plan to pick up another five seats in the Senate and hold the House through redistricting through 2012. And rather than negotiate with the teachers' unions …
Grover Norquist
58. What a teacher writes on the whiteboard of life can never be erased.
Anonymous
59. Without Teachers Life Would Have No Class.
Anonymous
60.You may not see the fruit of today's work but you have seeded a lifetime of knowledge.
Anonymous