Being a teacher involves more than simply being able to convey knowledge to students. Teacher not only helped to simplify that the most complex equations but also helped us in understanding life. Famous teacher quotes will remind that teaching is about touching hearts, opening minds, and transforming lives.
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Famous Teacher Quotes
Education is not the filling of a pot but the lighting of a fire. W.B. Yeats
I am not a teacher, but an awakener. Robert Frost
Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition. Jacques Barzun
A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary. Thomas Carruthers
Those who know, do. Those that understand, teach. Aristotle
The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education. Martin Luther King, Jr.
I never teach my pupils; I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn. Albert Einstein
A teacher’s job is to take a bunch of live wires and see that they are well-grounded. Darwin D. Martin
The best teachers are the ones that change their minds. Terry Heick
Teaching is the highest form of understanding. Aristotle
Teaching is more than imparting knowledge; it is inspiring change. Learning is more than absorbing facts; it is acquiring understanding. William Arthur Ward
Teach the way you’d want to be taught.
Study without reflection is a waste of time; reflection without study is dangerous. Chinese Proverb
Children learn best when they like their teacher, and they think their teacher likes them.
Teaching is the profession that teaches all the other professions.
Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing. Theodore Roosevelt
Positive Teacher Quotes
Teachers have three loves: love of learning, love of learners, and the love of bringing the first two loves together. Scott Hayden
When one teaches, two learn. Robert Heinlein
Education is the key to success in life, and teachers make a lasting impact in the lives of their students.” –Solomon Ortiz
It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge. Albert Einstein
A teacher affects eternity: he can never tell where his influence stops. Henry Adams
A great teacher is a great artist.
The best teachers are those who show you where to look but don’t tell you what to see. Alexandra K. Trenfor
I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think. Socrates
Teaching kids to count is fine, but teaching them what counts is best.
Everyone who remembers his own education remembers teachers, not methods and techniques. The teacher is the heart of the educational system. Sidney Hook
One child, one teacher, one book, and one pen can change the world. Malala Yousafzai
Education doesn’t just make us smarter. It makes us whole. Jill Biden
A well-educated mind will always have more questions than answers.
Teachers teach someone something, in that order. Samuel Natale
The fact that you worry about being a good teacher, means that you already are one. Jodi Picoult
I cannot be a teacher without exposing who I am. Paulo Freire
If you love them today, maybe you can teach them tomorrow.
A well educated mind will always have more questions than answers. Helen Keller
Teachers have three loves: love of learning, love of learners, and the love of bringing the first two loves together. Scott Hayden
Every job has its ups and downs, but not every job can change a life.
Your work is not to drag the world kicking and screaming into a new awareness. Your job is to simply do your work… sacredly, secretly, silently … and those with eyes to see and ears to hear’ will respond. The Arturians
Short Teacher Quotes
Our fingerprints don’t fade from the lives we touch. Judy Blume
The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. Amos Bronson Alcott
Teaching kids to count is fine, but teaching them what counts is best. Bob Talbert
It’s the teacher that makes the difference, not the classroom. Michael Morpurgo
The best thing about being a teacher is that it matters.
In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something else. Lee Iacocca
Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn. Benjamin Franklin
Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today. Malcolm X
Nine-tenths of education is encouragement. Anatole France
Our fingerprints don’t fade from the lives we touch.
The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery. Mark Van Doren
A good teacher is like a candle – it consumes itself to light the way for others. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
You cannot teach a crab to walk straight. Aristophenes
Everyone, in some respect, is a teacher; some just work harder to do it better. Terry Heick
Teaching is the one profession that creates all other professions. Unknown
The best teacher lodges an intent not in the mind but in the heart.
If you have to put someone on a pedestal, put teachers. They are society’s heroes. Guy Kawasaki
Listening is the most difficult skill to learn and the most important to have. African Proverb
Favorite Teacher Quotes
Proper teaching is recognized with ease. You can know it without fail because it awakens within you that sensation which tells you this is something you have always known. Frank Herbet
The trick to having happy students, is to, first be happy yourself.
Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit. John Steinbeck
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires. William Arthur Ward
The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away. Pablo Picasso
It takes a big heart to help shape little minds.’
They may forget what you said but they will not forget how you made them feel. Carl Buechner
A great teacher can teach Calculus with a paper clip and literature in an empty field. Technology is just another tool, not a destination. Unknown
Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.
If a child can’t learn the way we teach, maybe we should teach the way they learn.
I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework. Lily Tomlin
The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts. C. S. Lewis
I touch the future. I teach. Christa McAuliffe
A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron. Horace Mann
The greatest sign of success for a teacher is to be able to say, ‘The children are now working as if I did not exist.’ Maria Montessori
It is essential to understand that battles are primarily won in the heart…(people) respond to leadership in a most remarkable way and once you have won (their) heart, (they) will follow you anywhere. Vince Lombardi
Motivational Teacher Quotes
The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. Amos Bronson Alcott
Teaching kids to count is fine, but teaching them what counts is best. Bob Talbert
In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something else. Lee Iacocca
Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn. Benjamin Franklin
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires. William Arthur Ward
Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today. Malcolm X
Nine-tenths of education is encouragement. Anatole France
The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery. Mark Van Doren
Teachers can change lives with just the right mix of chalk and challenges. Joyce Meyer
Proper teaching is recognized with ease. You can know it without fail because it awakens within you that sensation which tells you this is something you have always known. Frank Herbet
They may forget what you said but they will not forget how you made them feel. Carl Buechner
A great teacher can teach Calculus with a paper clip and literature in an empty field. Technology is just another tool, not a destination. Unknown
I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework. Lily Tomlin
You cannot teach a crab to walk straight. Aristophenes
The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts. C. S. Lewis
Teaching is the one profession that creates all other professions. Unknown
Children are likely to live up to what you believe of them. Lady Bird Johnson
I touch the future. I teach. Christa McAuliffe
So, friends, every day do something that won’t compute…Give your approval to all you cannot understand…Ask the questions that have no answers. Put your faith in two inches of humus that will build under the trees every thousand years…Laugh. Be joyful though you have considered all the facts….Practice resurrection. Wendell Berry
A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron. Horace Mann
