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Teacher Quotes

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

The beginning is the most important part of the work.
Plato

I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.
Author Unknown

The best teachers teach from the heart, not from the book.
Author Unknown

It’s easy to make a buck. It’s a lot tougher to make a difference.
Tom Brokaw

Teacher appreciation makes the world of education go around.
Helen Peters

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

We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude. Cynthia Ozick

There are two good reasons to be a teacher – July, and August!
Author Unknown

The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.
Khalil Gibran

Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre.
Gail Godwin

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.
Tennyson

I am not a teacher, but an awakener.
Robert Frost

The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
William A. Ward

Great teachers empathize with kids, respect them,
and believe that each one has something special that can be built upon.
Ann Lieberman

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

Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
Albert Einstein

A man should never be ashamed to own he has been wrong, which is but saying in other words that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
Alexander Pope

There are two ways to slide easily through life: to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.
Alfred Korzybski

Education should turn out the pupil with something he knows well and something he can do well.
Alfred North Whitehead

The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influences.
Amos Alcott

Awaken people’s curiosity. It is enough to open minds, do not overload them. Put there just a spark.
Anatole France

Sometimes one man with courage is a majority.
Andrew Jackson

You can’t direct the wind but you can adjust the sails.
Anonymous

A good education is like a savings account; the more you put into it, the richer you are.
Anonymous

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