Teacher’s Day quotes express inspiration and aspiration in a student’s life. Greet your teacher with some famous quotations & sayings enlisted here.

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Teacher’s Day Quotes

Teachers play a very influential role in a student’s life. By depicting the role of a beacon of light, a teacher guides a student through his growing years towards shaping a positive and prosperous future. To honor the contribution made by teachers in all fields of education and community, UNESCO came up with celebrating and respecting teachers through World Teacher’s Day commemorated on 5th October every year. Nonetheless, different countries have adopted different dates for celebrating Teacher’s Day. Whatsoever be the date, the spirit of celebration remains the same. Show your gratitude and appreciation towards your special educators by dedicating quotations and sayings to them. Read on further to find some famous quotes for teachers.

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My sister taught me everything I really need to know, and she was only in sixth grade at the time.

Linda Sunshine

A good teacher is a master of simplification and an enemy of simplism.

Louis A. Berman

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

Anonymous

Good teachers are costly, but bad teachers cost more.

Bob Talbert

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

William Arthur Ward

A teacher's purpose is not to create students in his own image, but to develop students who can create their own image.

Anonymous

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

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

Henry Brooks Adams

Good teaching must be slow enough so that it is not confusing, and fast enough so that it is not boring.

Sidney J. Harris

Those who educate children well are more to be honored than parents, for these only gave life, those the art of living well.

Aristotle

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

The best teachers teach from the heart, not from the book.

Anonymous

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

Jacques Barzun

A teacher is a compass that activates the magnets of curiosity, knowledge, and wisdom in the pupils.

Terri Guillemets

Teach your children by what you are, not just by what you say.

Jane Revell

To teach is to learn twice.

Joseph Joubert

A professor is one who talks in someone else's sleep.

W. H. Auden

Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.

Gail Godwin

He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.

George Bernard Shaw

Housework is a breeze. Cooking is a pleasant diversion. Putting up a retaining wall is a lark. But teaching is like climbing a mountain.

Fawn M. Brodie

I believe that every human soul is teaching something to someone nearly every minute here in mortality.

M. Russell Ballard

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

Albert Einstein

Life is amazing: and the teacher had better prepare himself to be a medium for that amazement.

Edward Blishen

I believe that the testing of the student's achievements in order to see if he meets some criterion held by the teacher, is directly contrary to the implications of therapy for significant learning.

Carl Rogers

The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.

Carl Rogers

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.

Nelson Mandela

One good schoolmaster is of more use than a hundred priests.

Thomas Paine

Quite frankly, teachers are the only profession that teach our children.

Dan Quayle

One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child.

Maria Montessori

The first idea the child must acquire is that of the difference between good and evil.

Maria Montessori

The only language men ever speak perfectly is the one they learn in babyhood, when no one can teach them anything.

Maria Montessori

The task of the educator lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility and evil with activity.

Maria Montessori

The teacher must derive not only the capacity, but the desire, to observe natural phenomena. The teacher must understand and feel her position of observer: the activity must lie in the phenomenon.

Maria Montessori

To aid life, leaving it free, however, that is the basic task of the educator.

Maria Montessori

We teachers can only help the work going on, as servants wait upon a master.

Maria Montessori

Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.

Chanakya

My teachers treated me as a diamond in the rough, someone who needed smoothing.

Mother Jones

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

Jacques Barzun

A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher who is not teaching.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

A human being is not attaining his full heights until he is educated.

Horace Mann

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

Horace Mann

Education alone can conduct us to that enjoyment which is, at once, best in quality and infinite in quantity.

Horace Mann

Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.

Jim Rohn

All students can learn.

Christopher Morley

“Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.”

Bill Gates

Good teachers are costly, but bad teachers cost more.”

Bob Talbert

“It takes most men five years to recover from a college education, and to learn that poetry is as vital to thinking as knowledge.”

Brooks Atkinson

When I was a schoolgirl my history teacher, Mr Scott, began to take classes in civic affairs. The first thing he explained to us was the fundamental rule of law embodied in Habeas Corpus.

Vivienne Westwood

Teachers are expected to reach unattainable goals with inadequate tools. The miracle is that at times they accomplish this impossible task.

Dr. Haim Ginott

You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room.

Dr. Seuss

Great teachers transcend ideology.

Suzanne Fields

Why shouldn't we give our teachers a license to obtain software, all software, any software, for nothing? Does anyone demand a licensing fee, each time a child is taught the alphabet?

William Gibson

Education is what survives when what has been learnt has been forgotten.

B. F. Skinner

I remember the mentoring experiences of some teachers that I had, like a second term home room teacher in public school that really was very helpful to me.

Sanford I. Weill

The most effective kind of education is that a child should play amongst lovely things.

Plato

Teaching is the profession that teaches all the other professions.

Anonymous

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