Teacher Quotes

"My teacher is so near to me that I scarcely think of myself apart from her."

"One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings."

"I've come to the frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element in the classroom."

Haim Ginott

"Every child deserves a champion – an adult who will never give up on them, who understands the power of connection and insists that they become the best that they can possibly be."

Rita Pierson

"Teaching kids to count is fine, but teaching them what counts is best."

Bob Talbert

"The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery."

Mark Van Doren

"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."

Kahlil Gibran

"While we teach, we learn."

Seneca

"To teach is to learn twice."

Joseph Joubert

"I am not a teacher, but an awakener."

Robert Frost

"I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well."

"Everyone who remembers his own education remembers teachers, not methods and techniques."

Sidney Hook

"Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition."

Jacques Barzun

"I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists."

John Steinbeck

"The dream begins with a teacher who believes in you, who tugs and pushes and leads you to the next plateau."

Dan Rather

"In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something less."

Lee Iacocca

"Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family."

Kofi Annan

"Teachers who love teaching, teach children to love learning."

Robert John Meehan

"Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important."

Bill Gates

"The first principle of true teaching is that nothing can be taught."

Sri Aurobindo

"There is no end to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning."

J. Krishnamurti

"Cultivation of mind should be the ultimate aim of human existence."

B. R. Ambedkar

"The best brains of the nation may be found on the last benches of the classroom."

"A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary."

Thomas Carruthers

"Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each."