Happy Teachers Day Quotes:

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

source: Dan Rather (1984). “The Camera Never Blinks”, Ballantine Books

topic: Thank You, Education, Dream, Wonderful Teacher, Great Teacher

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

- Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

topic: Teacher, Teaching, Light, Good Teacher, Wonderful Teacher

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 be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.

- John Steinbeck

source: John Steinbeck (2003). “America and Americans and Selected Nonfiction”, p.123, Penguin

topic: Inspirational, Education, Teacher, Sprung, Inspirational Educational

The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.

- William Arthur Ward

source: William Arthur Ward (1968). “Thoughts of a Christian Optimist: The Words of William Arthur Ward”

topic: Motivational, Leadership, Basketball, Joy Of Learning, Inspirational Education

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

- Helen Caldicott

source: Helen Caldicott (2009). “If You Love This Planet: A Plan to Save the Earth (Revised and updated)”, p.220, W. W. Norton & Company

topic: Teacher, Believe, Fate, Wonderful Teacher, English Teacher

I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.

- Lily Tomlin

topic: Education, Appreciation, Teacher, Inspirational Teacher, Knowledge And Learning

A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.

- Henry Adams

source: The Education of Henry Adams ch. 20 (1907)

topic: Inspirational, Leadership, Education, Math Teacher, Inspirational Education

The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles but to irrigate deserts. The right defence against false sentiments is to inculcate just sentiments. By starving the sensibility of our pupils we only make them easier prey to the propagandist when he comes. For famished nature will be avenged and a hard heart is no infallible protection against a soft head.

- C. S. Lewis

topic: Heart, Cutting, Tasks, Modern Education, Lecturer

I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.

- Alexander the Great

topic: Fathers Day, Teacher, Teaching, Great Father, Indebted

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Inspirational, Dance, Education, Learning To Read, Math Education

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 the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.

- Carl Jung

topic: Teacher, Gratitude, Appreciation, Math Education, Math Teacher

The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-trust. He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him. He will have no disciples.

- Amos Bronson Alcott

topic: Education, Teacher, Eye, Good Teacher, Good Teaching

The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself.

- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

topic: Inspirational, Education, Teacher, Students And Education, Wonderful Teacher

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

- Jacques Barzun

topic: Appreciation, Teacher, Educational, Inspirational Education, Inspirational Educational

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.

- William Butler Yeats

source: "Gov. Brown Uses State of the State Speech to Push Education Reforms" by Adolfo Guzman-Lopez, www.scpr.org. January 24, 2013.

topic: Inspirational, Graduation, Education, Learning To Read, Joy Of Learning

A teacher who can arouse a feeling for one single good action, for one single good poem, accomplishes more than he who fills our memory with rows and rows of natural objects, classified with name and form.

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

source: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2016). “Elective Affinities”, p.175, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

topic: Wisdom, Teacher, Memories, Teacher Student, Good Teacher

The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without his teacher.

- Elbert Hubbard

topic: Inspirational, Education, Teacher, Children And Education, Children Education

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

- Nicholas Sparks

topic: Inspirational, Teacher, Inspire, Teachers Day, Happy Teachers Day

Teachers open the door ... you enter by yourself.

- Confucius

topic: Education, Teacher, Teaching, Good Teacher, Self Education

What the teacher is, is more important than what he teaches.

- Karl A. Menninger

topic: Appreciation, Teacher, Retirement, Inspirational Teacher, Wonderful Teacher

The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

topic: Inspirational, Education, Teacher, English Teacher, Teacher Appreciation Day

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

topic: Leadership, Education, Teacher, Teachers And Teaching, Art Of Living

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

topic: Inspirational, Thank You, Teacher, Math Education, Spring Awakening

Every child should have a caring adult in their lives. And that's not always a biological parent or family member. It may be a friend or neighbor. Often times it is a teacher.

- Joe Manchin

topic: Family, Teacher, Children, Teachers Day, Happy Teachers Day

If you think your teacher is tough, wait till you get a boss.

- Bill Gates

topic: Wealth And Success, Boss Day, School Teachers, Happy Boss Day, Happy Teachers Day

There are two kinds of teachers: the kind that fill you with so much quail shot that you can't move, and the kind that just gives you a little prod behind and you jump to the skies.

- Robert Frost

topic: Inspirational, Education, Teacher, Inspirational Teacher, Parents And Teachers