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Teacher Quotes

A good teacher is like a candle – it consumes itself to light the way for others.
– Author Unknown

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

A teacher is a compass that activates the magnets of curiosity, knowledge, and wisdom in the pupils.
– Ever Garrison

A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
– Thomas Carruthers

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

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

Good teaching is more a giving of right questions than a giving of right answers.
– Josef Albers

I have been maturing as a teacher. New experiences bring new sensitivities and flexibility…
– Howard Lester

I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.
– Lily Tomlin as “Edith Ann”

I touch the future. I teach.
– Christa McAuliffe

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

It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot irreverance to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
– Jacob Bronowski

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

Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are endless.
– Mother Teresa

Man’s mind stretched by a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
– Oliver Wendell Holmes

No one has yet fully realized the wealth of sympathy, kindness, and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure.
– Emma Golmam

Teaching is the profession that teaches all the other professions.
– Author Unknown

Teaching should be full of ideas instead of stuffed with facts.
– Author Unknown

Teaching kids to count is fine, but teaching them what counts is best.
– Bob Talbert

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 gather flowers.
– Author Unknown

The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.
– Mark Van Doren

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

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

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

The task of the excellent teacher is to stimulate “apparently ordinary” people to unusual effort. The tough problem is not in identifying winners: it is in making winners out of ordinary people.
– K. Patricia Cross

There is no education like adversity.
– Benjamin Disraeli

To know how to suggest is the great art of teaching.
– Henri Frederic Amiel

To stimulate life, leaving it then free to develop, to unfold,herein lies the first task of the teacher.
– Maria Montessori

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