Quotes
for Teacher’s Day
Here
are some of the most popular and inspiring teacher day quotes. You can use
these teacher quotes to make your teacher’s message even more attractive and
meaningful. Just have a glance through the following quotes about teachers–
I am indebted to my
father for living, but to my teacher for living well.
– Alexander the Great
A good teacher is like a candle – it consumes itself to light the way for others.
– Anonymous
The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.
– Mark Van Doren
The best teachers teach from the heart, not from the book.
– Anonymous
Who dares to teach must never cease to learn.
– John Cotton Dana
Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre.
– Gail Godwin
To teach is to learn twice.
– Joseph Joubert
Good teachers are costly, but bad teachers cost more.
– Bob Talbert
A good teacher is a master of simplification and an enemy of simplism.
– Louis A. Berman
Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.
- Jacques Barzun
In teaching you cannot see the fruit of a day’s work. It is invisible and remains so, maybe for twenty years.
– Jacques Barzun
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
– William A. Ward
If a doctor, lawyer, or dentist had 40 people in his office at one time, all of whom had different needs, and some of whom didn’t want to be there and were causing trouble, and the doctor, lawyer, or dentist, without assistance, had to treat them all with professional excellence for nine months, then he might have some conception of the classroom teacher’s job.
- Donald D. Quinn
A gifted teacher is as rare as a gifted doctor, and makes far less money.
– Alexander the Great
A good teacher is like a candle – it consumes itself to light the way for others.
– Anonymous
The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.
– Mark Van Doren
The best teachers teach from the heart, not from the book.
– Anonymous
Who dares to teach must never cease to learn.
– John Cotton Dana
Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre.
– Gail Godwin
To teach is to learn twice.
– Joseph Joubert
Good teachers are costly, but bad teachers cost more.
– Bob Talbert
A good teacher is a master of simplification and an enemy of simplism.
– Louis A. Berman
Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.
- Jacques Barzun
In teaching you cannot see the fruit of a day’s work. It is invisible and remains so, maybe for twenty years.
– Jacques Barzun
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
– William A. Ward
If a doctor, lawyer, or dentist had 40 people in his office at one time, all of whom had different needs, and some of whom didn’t want to be there and were causing trouble, and the doctor, lawyer, or dentist, without assistance, had to treat them all with professional excellence for nine months, then he might have some conception of the classroom teacher’s job.
- Donald D. Quinn
A gifted teacher is as rare as a gifted doctor, and makes far less money.
- Unknown Author
A teacher's purpose is not to create students in his own image, but
to develop students who can create their own image.
- Unknown Author
The best teachers teach from the heart, not from the book.
- Unknown Author
It is commonly said that a teacher fails if he has not been
surpassed by his students.
- Edmond
A good teacher is like
a candle - it consumes itself to light the way for others.
- Unknown Author
Teaching is the
profession that teaches all the other professions.
- Unknown Author
The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-distrust. He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him. He will have no disciple.
- Amos Bronson Alcott
Teaching is not a lost
art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.
- Jacques Barzun
What the teacher is is
more important than what he teaches.
- Karl Menningervv
A teacher who is
attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is
hammering on cold iron.
- Horace Mann
“A teacher affects
eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.”
- Henry Brooks Adams
Good teachers are costly,
but bad teachers cost more.
- Bob Talbert
The job of a teacher is
to excite in the young a boundless sense of curiosity about life, so that the
growing child shall come to apprehend it with an excitement tempered by awe and
wonder.
- John Garrett
Teaching is the only
major occupation of man for which we have not yet 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
Better than a thousand
days of diligent study is one day with a great teacher."
- Japanese proverb
The mediocre teacher
tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great
teacher inspires.
- William Arthur Ward
“The whole art of
teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for
the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.”
- Anatole France
In teaching you cannot
see the fruit of a day's work. It is invisible and remains so, maybe for twenty
years.
- Jacques Barzun
Teaching is leaving a
vestige of oneself in the development of another. And surely the student is a
bank where you can deposit your most precious treasures.
- Eugene P. Bertin
“Teachers, I believe, are
the most responsible and important members of society because their
professional efforts affect the fate of the earth.”
- Helen Caldicott
“No matter how good
teaching may be, each student must take the responsibility for his own
education.”
- John Carolus S. J
Teachers are expected to
reach unattainable goals with inadequate tools. The miracle is that at times
they accomplish this impossible task.
- Haim G. Ginott
“The dream begins with a
teacher who believes in you, who tugs and pushes and leads you to the next
plateau, sometimes poking you with a sharp stick called "truth.”
- Dan Rather
The best teacher is the
one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the
wish to teach himself.
- Edward Bulwer-Lytton
The task of the excellent
teacher is to stimulate “apparently ordinary” people to unusual effort. The
tough problem is not in identifying winners: it is in making winners out of
ordinary people.
- K. Patricia Cross
Those who educate
children well are more to be honoured than parents, for these only gave life,
those the art of living well.
– Aristotle
It is commonly said that
a teacher fails if he has not been surpassed by his students.
- Edmond
A good teacher is like a
candle - it consumes itself to light the way for others.
- Unknown Author
Teachers are expected to
reach unattainable goals with inadequate tools. The miracle is that at times
they accomplish this impossible task.
- Haim G. Ginott
“The dream begins with a teacher who believes in you, who tugs and pushes and leads you to the next plateau, sometimes poking you with a sharp stick called "truth.”
- Dan Rather
The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself.
- Edward Bulwer-Lytton
The task of the excellent teacher is to stimulate “apparently ordinary” people to unusual effort. The tough problem is not in identifying winners: it is in making winners out of ordinary people.
- K. Patricia Cross
Those who educate children well are more to be honoured than parents, for these only gave life, those the art of living well.
– Aristotle
It is commonly said that a teacher fails if he has not been surpassed by his students.
- Edmond
A good teacher is like a candle - it consumes itself to light the way for others.
- Unknown Author
The above listed quotes are
some of the very popular quotes for teachers; they are not only inspiring but
reflect the true meaning and the significance of teachers in our lives. So, use
these teacher’s appreciation quotes to convey your expressions and gratitude to
your favourite teacher and wish them a very happy Teacher’s Day!