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