Teacher Quotes
A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.
~Henry Adams
I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.
~Lily Tomlin as "Edith Ann"
He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
~Victor Hugo
What the teacher is, is more important than what he teaches.
~Karl Menninger
Good teachers are costly, but bad teachers cost more.
~Bob Talbert
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
A good teacher is a master of simplification and an enemy of simplism.
~Louis A. Berman
Teaching is leaving a vestige of one self in the development of another. And surely the student is a bank where you can deposit your most precious treasures.
~Eugene P. Bertin
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
~William Arthur Ward
The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself.
~Edward Bulwer-Lytton

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