Teacher Quotes

"A good teacher is a master of simplification and an enemy of simplism."

Louis A. Berman

"Teachers are expected to reach unattainable goals with inadequate tools. The miracle is that at times they accomplish this impossible task."

Haim Ginott

"Teaching is the highest form of understanding."

"Students don't care how much you know until they know how much you care."

"The best way to learn is to teach."

Frank Oppenheimer

"What we learn with pleasure we never forget."

Alfred Mercier

"The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without his teacher."

Elbert Hubbard

"Teaching should be such that what is offered is perceived as a valuable gift and not as a hard duty."

Albert Einstein

"One good teacher in a lifetime may sometimes change a delinquent into a solid citizen."

Philip Wylie

"Teaching is not about information. It's about having an honest intellectual relationship with your students."

Paul Lockhart

"Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them become what they are capable of being."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"The beautiful thing about learning is that nobody can take it away from you."

B. B. King

"Change is the end result of all true learning."

Leo Buscaglia

"Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today."

Malcolm X

"Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom."

George Washington Carver

"Learning is not attained by chance; it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence."

Abigail Adams

"A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions."

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

"Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow."

Anthony J. D'Angelo

"The capacity to learn is a gift; the ability to learn is a skill; the willingness to learn is a choice."

Brian Herbert

"Every student can learn, just not on the same day, or the same way."

George Evans

"If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others."

Tryon Edwards

"The secret of education lies in respecting the student."

"Books are the means by which we build bridges between cultures."

Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

"Educationists should build the capacities of the spirit of inquiry, creativity, entrepreneurial and moral leadership among students and become their role model."

"If education is identical with information, the libraries are the greatest sages in the world, and encyclopaedias are the rishis."