Being a teacher is not an easy job; one has to play too many roles from an educator to a reliable mentor, a guide to its students, and sometimes an accidental mom too! We all have one favorite Teacher in our lives who is more like a friend to us, and we are always profoundly grateful to them for all the love and guidance.
The hard work, determination, time, and devotion teachers put in students is beyond compare; they are simply strong pillars behind building any nation. They work tirelessly without any complaint to enrich the lives of on-going generations.
To acknowledge the amazing value of their efforts, we have gathered some popular saying and Best Teacher Quotes that one can use on Teacher’s appreciation day. In this way, we will be able to deliver our thanks to inspirational mentors in a most beautiful manner.
If we learn to open our hearts, anyone, including the people who drive us crazy, can be our teacher.
Pema Chodron
I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
We are like children, who stand in need of masters to enlighten us and direct us; God has provided for this, by appointing his angels to be our teachers and guides.
Thomas Aquinas
There is no education like adversity.
Benjamin Disraeli
Housework is a breeze. Cooking is a pleasant diversion. Putting up a retaining wall is a lark. But teaching is like climbing a mountain.
Fawn M. Brodie
As long as any adult thinks that he, like the parents and teachers of old, can become introspective, invoking his own youth to understand the youth before him, he is lost.
Margaret Mead
Teachers are out there with a very difficult job, which they pursue with tireless dedication.
Chi McBride
I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.
Alexander the Great
Many spiritual teachers – in Buddhism, in Islam – have talked about first-hand experience of the world as an important part of the path to wisdom, to enlightenment.
Bell Hooks
I felt landscapes would sell more readily, and not being equipped psychologically to be a teacher or commercial artist, that was important.
E. J. Hughes
I accept relationship as my primary teacher about myself, other people, and the mysteries of the universe.
Gay Hendricks
Don’t set your wit against a child.
Jonathan Swift
I’m now as free as the breeze – with roughly the same income.
Gene Perret
What art offers is space – a certain breathing room for the spirit.
John Updike
Suffering is one of life’s great teachers.
Bryant H. McGill
As places of learning, schools have a responsibility to also educate on nutrition, which we all can agree is far more important than algebra, no matter what your third-period teacher claims.
Lynda Resnick
Make failure your teacher, not your undertaker.
Zig Ziglar
When the student is ready the teacher will appear.
Laozi
Don’t try to become a teacher overnight with psychological bookkeeping in your heart and educational theory in your head.
Janusz Korczak
The music teacher came twice a week to bridge the awful gap between Dorothy and Chopin.
George Ade
Social entrepreneurs are not content just to give a fish or teach how to fish. They will not rest until they have revolutionized the fishing industry.
Bill Drayton
I claim Dickens as a mentor. He’s my teacher. He’s one of my driving forces.
Anne Rice
Nine tenths of education is encouragement.
Anatole France
In this very breath that we take now lies the secret that all great teachers try to tell us.
Peter Matthiessen
The leader is a teacher who succeeds without taking credit. And, because credit is not taken, credit is received.
Laozi
Given the professionalism of Michigan teachers, I think they’re not teaching because of the financial rewards.
John Engler
We expect teachers to handle teenage pregnancy, substance abuse, and the failings of the family.
Then we expect them to educate our children.
John Sculley
In my teens, I developed a passionate idolatry for a teacher of English literature. I wanted to do something that he would approve of more, so I thought I should be some sort of a scholar.
Trevor Nunn
A mind is like a parachute. It doesn’t work if it is not open.
Frank Zappa
The giving of love and understanding is an education in itself.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Education must provide the opportunities for self-fulfillment; it can at best provide a rich and challenging environment for the individual to explore, in his own way.
Noam Chomsky
Earth and Sky, Woods and Fields, Lakes and Rivers, the Mountain and the Sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books.
John Lubbock
Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.
Francis Bacon
We now accept the fact that learning is a lifelong process of keeping abreast of change. And the most pressing task is to teach people how to learn.
Peter Drucker
Those who have no record of what their forebears have accomplished lose the inspiration which comes from the teaching of biography and history.
Carter G. Woodson
Inspirational Teachers Quotes
Aren’t teachers the most intimidating personalities in our school life? Some days we feel warmth and love towards them, and on others, we get detested for expecting so many things from us. Teachers know how to exploit one’s potential and guide towards a plethora of opportunities, inspire us to discover our talents, and motivate us along the way.
However, it’s undeniably true that we appreciate these ideals after getting older. We realize they are the only ones who believed in us when we didn’t believe in ourselves. As maturity hits us, we remember how our Teachers nurtured us with ethical values and became our ‘school parents’ for such a long time.
While friends give us memories for a lifetime, our teachers inspired us to be a better human to spend a life with pride. Here we present you inspirational quotes on teachers to encourage you to show appreciation to those amazing gurus!
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
William Arthur Ward
Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.
William Arthur Ward
Good teaching must be slow enough so that it is not confusing, and fast enough so that it is not boring.
Sidney J. Harris
Appreciation is a wonderful thing. It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.
Voltaire
In an effective classroom, students should not only know what they are doing, they should also know why and how.
Harry Wong
I can no other answer make, but, thanks, and thanks.
William Shakespeare
Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
Gail Godwin
Discover wildlife! Be a teacher!
Unknown
The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught as that every child should be given the wish to learn.
John Lubbock
Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre.
Gail Godwin
The need for imagination, as a sense of truth, and as a feeling of responsibility — these are the three forces which are the very nerve of education.
Rudolf Steiner
Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.
Jacques Barzun
Teaching should be such that what is offered is perceived as a valuable gift and not as a hard duty.
Albert Einstein
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.
Khalil Gibran
Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process.
A. Bartlett Giamatti
What a teacher writes on the blackboard of life can never be erased.
Unknown
The teacher’s task is to initiate the learning process and then get out of the way.
John Warren
He who opens a school door closes a prison.
Victor Hugo
A teacher affects eternity; he [or she] can never tell where his influence stops.
Henry B. Adams
Teacher appreciation makes the world of education go around.
Helen Peters
In teaching you cannot see the fruit of a day’s work. It is invisible and remains so, maybe for twenty years.
Jacques Barzun
A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.
Henry Adams
The greatest use of a life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
William James
Your heart is slightly bigger than the average human heart, but that’s because you’re a teacher.
Aaron Bacall
Thirty-one chances. Thirty-one futures, our futures. It’s an almost psychotic feeling, believing that part of their lives belongs to me. Everything they become, I also become. And everything about me, they helped to create.
Esme Raji Codell
When we strive to become better teachers than we are, everyone in our classroom becomes better too.
Robert John Meehan
Teachers are people who start things they never see finished, and for which they never get thanks until it is too late.
Max Forman
What greater or better gift can we offer the republic than to teach and instruct our youth?
Marcus T. Cicero
Teachers, who educate children, deserve more honor than parents, who merely gave them birth; for the latter provided mere life, while the former ensured a good life.
Aristotle
Those who know, do. Those who understand, teach.
Aristotle
What greater joy can a teacher feel than to witness a child’s success?
Michelle L. Graham
The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.
Eric Hoffer
The best education is not given to students; it is drawn out of them.
Gerald Belcher
The great teacher is not the man who supplies the most facts, but the one in whose presence we become different people.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.
Albert Einstein
Teaching is the profession that teaches all the other professions.
Unknown
Good teaching is more a giving of right questions than a giving of right answers.
Josef Albers
Teaching is not just a job. It is a human service, and it must be thought of as a mission.
Dr. Ralph Tyler
The test of a good teacher is not how many questions he can ask his pupils that they will answer readily, but how many questions he inspires them to ask which he finds it hard to answer.
Alice Wellington Rollins
Summer vacation is the time when parents realize teachers are grossly underpaid.
Unknown
It must be remembered that the purpose of education is not to fill the minds of students with facts…it is to teach them to think, if that is possible, and always to think for themselves.
Robert Hutchins
It takes a big heart to help shape little minds.
Unknown
Effective teaching may be the hardest job there is.
William Glasser
Being able to help someone learn something is a talent.
Margaret Riel
A pro is someone who can do great work when he doesn’t feel like it.
Alastair Cook
A hundred years from now, it will not matter what kind of car I drove, what kind of house I lived in, how much money I had in the bank. But the world may be a better place because I made a difference in the life of a child.
Forest Witcraft
Education…is a painful, continual, and difficult work to be done in kindness, by watching, by warning…by praise, but above all, by example.
John Ruskin
Great Teacher Quotes
For each one of us, one important Teacher holds a remarkable space in our lives. A great teacher helps and understands the needs of its students. They are the real face behind shaping, changing, and influencing young minds through sharing in-depth knowledge and experiences. Don’t you think teachers are under-appreciated for their efforts and hard work!
Without the help of teachers, it is impossible for children to explore their interests in different fields and subjects. We can’t even imagine how many challenges they experience in their career.
So take a moment from your busy schedule and thank all the excellent educators who helped you to make the most of your potential. Through our collection of Famous Quotes on Teachers, pick one of your favorite quotes and send it to your dearest mentor, today!
Teaching is a very noble profession that shapes the character, caliber, and future of the individual. If the people remember me as a good teacher, that will be the biggest honor for me.
APJ Abdul Kalam
Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.
John Dewey
Teaching is the only major occupation…for which we have not developed tools that make an average person capable of competence and performance. In teaching we rely on the naturals, the ones who somehow know how to teach.
Peter Drucker
A teacher takes a hand, opens a mind, and touches a heart.
Unknown
Teachers are expected to reach unattainable goals with inadequate tools. The miracle is that at times they accomplish this impossible task.
Haim Ginott
Give me a fish and I eat for a day. Teach me to fish and I eat for a lifetime.
Chinese Proverb
We can, whenever and wherever we choose, successfully teach all children whose schooling is of interest to us. We already know more than we need to know in order to do that. Whether or not we do it must finally depend on how we feel about the fact we haven’t so far.
Ron Edmonds
Teaching kids to count is fine, but teaching them what counts is best.
Bob Talbert
The most important part of teaching is to teach what it is to know.
Simone Weil
What the teacher is, is more important than what he teaches.
Karl Menninger
Teaching is the greatest act of optimism.
Colleen Wilcox
I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.
Alexander the Great
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 Ataturk
Teaching is the perpetual end and office of all things. Teaching, instruction is the main design that shines through the sky and earth.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Anyone who does anything to help a child in his life is a hero to me.
Fred Rogers
Teaching is truth mediated by personality.
Phyllis Brooks
The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you.
B.B. King
The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards; curiosity itself can be vivid and wholesome only in proportion as the mind is contented and happy.
Anatole France
The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.
Robert M. Hutchins
Benevolence alone will not make a teacher, nor will learning alone do it. The gift of teaching is a peculiar talent, and implies a need and a craving in the teacher himself.
John Jay Chapman
Children are likely to live up to what you believe of them.
Lady Bird Johnson
One of the beauties of teaching is that there is no limit to one’s growth as a teacher, just as there is no knowing beforehand how much your students can learn.
Herbert Kohl
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
William Arthur Ward
I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.
John Steinbeck
Everyone who remembers his own education remembers teachers, not methods and techniques. The teacher is the heart of the educational system.
Sidney Hook
I entered the classroom with the conviction that it was crucial for me and every other student to be an active participant, not a passive consumer…education that connects the will to know with the will to become.
Bell Hooks
Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.
Malcolm X
Education’s purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
Malcolm Forbes
Education is not the filling of a pail but the lighting of a fire.
William Butler Yeats
Among the many purposes of schooling, four stand out to us as having special moral value: to love and care, to serve, to empower and, of course, to learn.
Andy Hargreaves and Michael Fullan
A teacher is a compass that activates the magnets of curiosity, knowledge, and wisdom in the pupils.
Ever Garrison
The most important function of education at any level is to develop the personality of the individual and the significance of his life to himself and to others. This is the basic architecture of a life; the rest is ornamentation and decoration of the structure.
Grayson Kirk
Great teachers empathize with kids, respect them, and believe that each one has something special that can be built upon.
Ann Liberman
No one has yet fully realized the wealth of sympathy, kindness, and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure.
Emma Goldman
The secret in education lies in respecting the student.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The object of teaching a child is to enable him [or her] to get along without his [or her] teacher.
Elbert Hubbard
Intelligence plus character– that is the goal of true education.
Martin Luther King Jr.
Any genuine teaching will result, if successful, in someone’s knowing how to bring about a better condition of things than existed earlier.
John Dewey
It is the supreme art of a teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.
Albert Einstein
The ability to think straight, some knowledge of the past, some vision of the future, some skill to do useful service, some urge to fit that service into the well-being of the community — these are the most vital things education must try to produce.
Virginia Gildersleeve
A good teacher can inspire hope, ignite the imagination, and instill a love of learning.
Brad Henry
Education is much more than a matter of imparting the knowledge and skills by which narrow goals are achieved. It is also about opening the child’s eyes to the needs and rights of others.
Dalai Lama
When educating the minds of our youth, we must not forget to educate their hearts.
Dalai Lama
One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is a vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.
Carl Jung
One child, one teacher, one book, one pen can change the world.
Malala Yousafzai
Why wait for teachers’ day to show your gratitude to your mentors? Each one of them plays a significant role in building us as the individuals who we are today. We have hand-picked the best ones, Teacher Quotes, for our collection, which will remind us how incredible our mentors were throughout this journey!
