Teacher Quotes



      “Teaching creates all other professions.”
- Anonymous


     “A good teacher is like a candle - it consumes itself to light the way for others.”
- Mustafa Kemal Atatürk

      “The average teacher explains complexity; the gifted teacher reveals simplicity.”
- Robert Brault

      “A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.”
- Thomas Carruthers

       “I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.”
- Lily Tomlin as "Edith Ann"

        “I once heard a saying that when you're ready, the teacher you need appears before you.” 
- Emily Byrd Starr

       “What the teacher is, is more important than what he teaches.”
- Karl Menninger

      “A good teacher is a master of simplification and an enemy of simplism.”
- Louis A. Berman

      “Teaching should be full of ideas instead of stuffed with facts.”
- Anonymous


       “The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.” 
- William Arthur Ward

        “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

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

       “The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.”
- Aristotle

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

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

        “Education is the key to success in life, and teachers make a lasting impact in the lives of their students.
- Solomon Ortiz

       “A good teacher, like a good entertainer first must hold his audience's attention, then he can teach his lesson.
John Henrik Clarke

       “A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher who is not teaching.
Gilbert K. Chesterton


      “Only one person in a million becomes enlightened without a teacher's help.
- Bodhidharma


       “To teach, learn. To learn, teach.” 
- Mokokoma Mokhonoana


       “Your best teacher is your last mistake.
-Ralph Nader



       “Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself.”
-Chinese Proverb

        “You can't teach a hunter it's wrong to kill. “
-Hari Dass Baba

      “You never stop learning. If you have a teacher, you never stop being a student.
Elisabeth Rohm


      “The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.
- Mark Van Doren


        “Teaching is only demonstrating that it is possible. Learning is making it possible for yourself.” 
- Paulo Coelho

      “Everybody's a teacher if you listen.
Doris Roberts

      “Experience is the teacher of all things.
Julius Caesar


       “My father was my teacher. But most importantly he was a great dad.
Beau Bridges


      “Success is not a good teacher, failure makes you humble.
Shahrukh Khan


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


      “A good teacher who can take the zero pay and help kids develop physically, emotionally, socially, is literally an angel.
Eva Amurri

        “There are obviously two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live.” 
- James Truslow Adams

       “Life is amazing: and the teacher had better prepare himself to be a medium for that amazement.”
- Edward Blishen

      “Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality.” 
- Dalai Lama XIV

      “This is what I would have done if I had to have a real job: I would have been a history teacher.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

       “A teacher enlarges people in all sorts of ways besides just his subject matter.
-Wallace Stegner


         “A good teacher is a determined person.
-Gilbert Highet


       “Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
Hector Berlioz


       “It's the teacher that makes the difference, not the classroom.
Michael Morpurgo