Teacher Templates

Jonathan Kozol - Wonderful teachers should never let themselves be drill sergeants for the state.

Andy Rooney - Teachers have thousands of people who remember them for the rest of their lives.

Helen Caldicott - Teachers, I believe, are the most responsible and important members of society because their professional efforts affect the fate of the earth.

Jacques Barzun - In teaching you cannot see the fruit of a day’s work. It is invisible and remains so, maybe for twenty years.

Kuan Chung - If you plan for a year, plant a seed if for ten years, plant a tree, if for a hundred years, teach the people. When you sow a seed once, you will reap a single harvest. when you teach the

Maria Callas - Good teachers make the best of a pupil’s means; great teachers foresee a pupil’s ends.

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

Maria Montessori - 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.

Brad Henry - A good teacher can inspire hope, ignite the imagination, and instill a love of learning.

Joyce Meyer - Teachers can change lives with just the right mix of chalk and challenges.

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

Sidney Hook - Everyone who remembers his own education remembers teachers, not methods and techniques. The teacher is the heart of the educational system.

F. Sionil Jose - The influence of teachers extends beyond the classroom, well into the future.

Helen Caldicott - Teachers are the most responsible and important members of society because their professional efforts affect the fate of the earth.

Alexandra K. Trenfor - The best teachers are those who show you where to look but don’t tell you what to see.

Rabindranath Tagore - The main objective of teaching is not to give explanations, but to knock at the doors of the mind.

Bill Gates - Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.

Kahlil Gibran - 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.

Mahatma Gandhi - I have always felt that the true textbook for the pupil is his teacher.

Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam - Your best teacher is your last mistake.

Arne Duncan - Wherever you find something extraordinary, you’ll find the fingerprints of a great teacher.

Nicholas Sparks - They inspire you, they entertain you, and you end up learning a ton even when you don't know it.

Malala Yousafzai - Let us remember: One book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world.

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

Benjamin Franklin - Tell me and I forget. Teach me, and I remember. Involve me and I learn.

Joseph Addison - What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul.

Jim Rohn - If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn’t need the motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around.

John Dewey - Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.

Colleen Wilcox - Teaching is the greatest act of optimism.

Teacher Quote Background

Anatole France - The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.