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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