Teachers Quotes

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

2- 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

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

4- 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

5- A teacher's purpose is not to create students in his own image, but to develop students who can create their own image. 

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

7- Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man how to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.

8- Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.  ~Jacques Barzun

9- Teaching should be full of ideas instead of stuffed with facts.

10- "No matter how good teaching may be, each student must take the responsibility for his own education." - John Carolus S. J.

Quotes About Teachers

1. “Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.” ― Charles William Eliot

2. “The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.” ― William Arthur Ward

3. “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

4. “There are two kinds of teachers: the kind that fill you with so much quail shot that you can't move, and the kind that just gives you a little prod behind and you jump to the skies.” ― Robert Frost

5. “Our youth now love luxury. They have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for their elders and love chatter in place of exercise; they no longer rise when elders enter the room; they contradict their parents, chatter before company; gobble up their food and tyrannize their teachers.” ― Socrates

6. “Because teachers, no matter how kind, no matter how friendly, are sadistic and evil to the core.” ― Heather Brewer, Eighth Grade Bites

7. “They inspire you, they entertain you, and you end up learning a ton even when you don't know it” ― Nicholas Sparks, Dear John

8. “When you study great teachers... you will learn much more from their caring and hard work than from their style.” ― William Glasser

9. “I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.― Alexander the Great

10.“A teacher who loves learning earns the right and the ability to help others learn.” ― Ruth Beechick, An Easy Start in Arithmetic