Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous
old teachers quotes, teachers sayings, and teachers proverbs, collected over the years from a variety
of sources.
A good teacher can inspire hope, ignite the imagination, and instill a love of learning.Brad Henry
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A good teacher, like a good entertainer first must hold his audience's attention, then he can teach his lesson.John Henrik Clarke
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Good teachers know how to bring out the best in students.Charles Kuralt
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A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.Henry Adams
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The teacher is the one who gets the most out of the lessons, and the true teacher is the learner.Elbert Hubbard
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The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.William A. Ward
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What nobler employment, or more valuable to the state, than that of the man who instructs the rising generation.Marcus Tullius Cicero
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He that teaches us anything which we knew not before is undoubtedly to be reverenced as a master.Samuel Johnson
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Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.Aristotle
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A teacher is a person who never says anything once.Howard Nemerov
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A good teacher is like a candle - it consumes itself to light the way for others.Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
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He who opens a school door, closes a prison.Victor Hugo
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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
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One good teacher in a lifetime may sometimes change a delinquent into a solid citizen.Philip Wylie
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A good teacher can inspire hope, ignite the imagination, and instill a love of learning.Brad Henry
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The job of an educator is to teach students to see the vitality in themselves.Joseph Campbell
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A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on a cold iron.Horace Mann
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A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher who is not teaching.Gilbert K. Chesterton
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You can't stop a teacher when they want to do something. They just do it.J.D. Salinger
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Teachers, I believe, are the most responsible and important members of society because their professional efforts affect the fate of the earth.Helen Caldicott
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The average teacher explains complexity; the gifted teacher reveals simplicity.Robert Brault
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Good teachers are costly. Bad teachers cost more.Bob Talbert
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The best teacher is very interactive.Bill Gates
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Teachers are expected to reach unattainable goals with inadequate tools. The miracle is that at times they accomplish this impossible task.Dr. Haim Ginott
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The best teachers teach from the heart, not from the book.unknown
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A teacher should have maximal authority, and minimal power.Thomas Szaz
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A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.Thomas Carruthers
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A good teacher is a master of simplification and an enemy of simplism.Louis A. Berman
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A teacher is a compass that activates the magnets of curiosity, knowledge, and wisdom in the pupils.Ever Garrison
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A good teacher must be able to put himself in the place of those who find learning hard.Eliphas Levi