Teacher Quotes

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

Karl Menninger

"Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater."

Gail Godwin

"The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts."

"The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows."

Sydney J. Harris

"If you have to put someone on a pedestal, put teachers. They are society's heroes."

Guy Kawasaki

"Teaching is the greatest act of optimism."

Colleen Wilcox

"A good teacher must be able to put himself in the place of those who find learning hard."

Eliphas Levi

"Children must be taught how to think, not what to think."

Margaret Mead

"Education is not the learning of facts, but the training of the mind to think."

Albert Einstein

"Intelligence plus character – that is the goal of true education."

"Good teachers know how to bring out the best in students."

Charles Kuralt

"The best teachers are those who show you where to look, but don't tell you what to see."

Alexandra K. Trenfor

"It's not what is poured into a student that counts, but what is planted."

Linda Conway

"Teaching is only demonstrating that it is possible. Learning is making it possible for yourself."

Paulo Coelho

"The teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron."

Horace Mann

"Who dares to teach must never cease to learn."

John Cotton Dana

"Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance."

Will Durant

"A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher who is not teaching."

G. K. Chesterton

"If a doctor, lawyer, or dentist had 40 people in his office at one time, all of whom had different needs, and some of whom didn't want to be there and were causing trouble, and the doctor, lawyer, or dentist, without assistance, had to treat them all with professional excellence for nine months, then he might have some conception of the classroom teacher's job."

Donald D. Quinn

"To me the sole hope of human salvation lies in teaching."

"The future of the world is in my classroom today."

Ivan Welton Fitzwater

"The best teacher is not the one who knows most but the one who is most capable of reducing knowledge to that simple compound of the obvious and wonderful."

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

Lily Tomlin

"Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased."

J. Krishnamurti

"Teach yourself, teach everyone his real nature, call upon the sleeping soul and see how it awakes."