Short Teacher Quotes:

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

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

- Joyce Meyer

topic: Education, Teacher, Life Changing, Chalk, Teacher Appreciation

The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.

- Plutarch

topic: Inspirational, Leadership, Education, Math Education, Inspirational Learning

Good teachers know how to bring out the best in students.

- Charles Kuralt

topic: Teacher, Literature, Students, Retirement Wishes, Teacher Appreciation

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 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

topic: Teacher, People, Effort, Maximum Effort, Parents And Teachers

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

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

The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.

- Mark Van Doren

topic: Art, Teaching, Learning, Inspirational Educational, Modern Education

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

- Brad Henry

topic: Teacher, Imagination, Inspire, Good Teacher, Love Of Learning

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

- Karl A. Menninger

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

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

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

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

Who dares to teach must never cease to learn.

- John Cotton Dana

source: John Cotton Dana's remarks on a quotation suitable for inscription on a new building at Newark State College, Union, New Jersey (1912) as quoted in "The New York Times Book Review" (p. 55.), March 5, 1967.

topic: Inspirational, Dare, Teach, Math Education, Inspirational Education

A master can tell you what he expects of you. A teacher, though, awakens your own expectations.

- Patricia Neal

source: Patricia Neal, Richard DeNeut (1988). “As I am: an autobiography”, Simon & Schuster

topic: Teacher, Teaching, Expectations, Inspiring Educational, Great Teacher

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

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

The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

topic: Inspirational, Life, Inspiring, Live And Learn, Inspirational Education

Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills.

- Minna Antrim

source: William Ralph Inge (1927). “The church in the world: collected essays”, Ayer Co Pub

topic: Teacher, Cynical, Experience, Good Teacher, Short 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

Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.

- Charles William Eliot

source: Charles William Eliot (1926). “Charles W. Eliot: the man and his beliefs”

topic: Friendship, Happiness, Teacher, Joy Of Reading, Counselor

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

You can't stop a teacher when they want to do something. They just do it.

- J. D. Salinger

topic: Teacher, Want, Authority, Teachers Day, Short Teacher

Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.

- Jacques Barzun

source: 1955 In Newsweek, 5 Dec.

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

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 teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.

- Horace Mann

source: Horace Mann (1867). “Thoughts”, p.225

topic: Inspirational, Inspiring, Education, Joy Of Learning, Methods Of Teaching

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

Education is the key to success in life, and teachers make a lasting impact in the lives of their students.

- Solomon Ortiz

topic: Inspirational, Success, Teacher, Lasting Impact, Teacher Motivational

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

You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul.

- Swami Vivekananda

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Spiritual, Spirit And Soul, Spiritual Awakening