Teacher Quotes

"Teachers can change lives with just the right mix of chalk and challenges."

Joyce Meyer

"The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires."

William Arthur Ward

"The mind does not require filling like a bottle, but rather, like wood, it only requires kindling to create in it an impulse to think independently."

Plutarch

"Teachers should be the best minds in the country."

Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

"When we think we know, we cease to learn."

Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

"If a country is to be corruption free and become a nation of beautiful minds, I strongly feel there are three key societal members who can make a difference. They are the father, the mother and the teacher."

"If people remember me as a good teacher, that will be the biggest honour for me."

"A teacher can never truly teach unless he is still learning himself. A lamp can never light another lamp unless it continues to burn its own flame."

"Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time."

"Education is the manifestation of the perfection already in man."

"We want that education by which character is formed, strength of mind is increased, the intellect is expanded, and by which one can stand on one's own feet."

"Guru and God both stand before me – whose feet shall I touch first? I bow to my Guru, who showed me the way to God."

Kabir

"Awake, arise and educate. Smash traditions – liberate!"

Savitribai Phule

"By education I mean an all-round drawing out of the best in child and man – body, mind and spirit."

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

Henry Adams

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

Albert Einstein

"I touch the future. I teach."

Christa McAuliffe

"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."

"You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself."

Galileo Galilei

"The greatest sign of success for a teacher is to be able to say, 'The children are now working as if I did not exist.'"

Maria Montessori

"Free the child's potential, and you will transform him into the world."

Maria Montessori

"Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself."

John Dewey

"One child, one teacher, one book, one pen can change the world."

Malala Yousafzai

"Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world."

"The most important day I remember in all my life is the one on which my teacher, Anne Mansfield Sullivan, came to me."