Teacher Quotes

"Teaching is a calling too. And I've always thought that teachers in their way are holy – angels leading their flocks out of the darkness."

Jeannette Walls

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

Ever Garrison

"The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself."

Edward Bulwer-Lytton

"Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another."

G. K. Chesterton

"Teaching is leaving a vestige of oneself in the development of another."

Eugene P. Bertin

"I am not a teacher; only a fellow-traveller of whom you asked the way. I pointed ahead – ahead of myself as well as of you."

"Teachers have three loves: love of learning, love of learners, and the joy of bringing the first two loves together."

Scott Hayden

"You can teach a student a lesson for a day; but if you can teach him to learn by creating curiosity, he will continue the learning process as long as he lives."

Clay P. Bedford

"The educator must believe in the potential power of his pupil, and he must employ all his art in seeking to bring his pupil to experience this power."

Alfred Adler

"The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn."

Cicero

"Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it."

Albert Einstein

"We teach what we like to learn and the reason many people go into teaching is vicariously to re-experience the joy experienced the first time they learned something they loved."

Stephen Brookfield

"Teachers, I believe, are the most responsible and important members of society because their professional efforts affect the fate of the earth."

Helen Caldicott

"Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one."

Malcolm Forbes

"Teaching is the essential profession, the one that makes all other professions possible."

David Haselkorn

"Education is not the amount of information that is put into your brain and runs riot there, undigested, all your life."

"The ideal of all education, all training, should be this man-making."

"Creativity is the key to success in the future, and primary education is where teachers can bring creativity in children at that level."

"Teaching is a very noble profession that shapes the character, caliber, and future of an individual."

"The teacher is one who makes two ideas grow where only one grew before."

Elbert Hubbard

"Facts are many, but the truth is one."

"There is no school equal to a decent home and no teacher equal to a virtuous parent."

"Go, get education. Be self-reliant, be industrious."

Savitribai Phule

"Without a guru, knowledge does not arise; without a guru, truth is not seen; without a guru, faults are not removed."

Kabir

"Learn thoroughly what should be learnt; and having learnt, live by it."

Thiruvalluvar