Teacher Quotes: Inspiring Words for Educators

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

Gilbert K. Chesterton, Writer

"Of all the hard jobs around, one of the hardest is being a good teacher"

Maggie Gallagher, Writer

"Find a good teacher, don't betray yourself to succeed and be a better person before being a better actor"

Giovanni Morassutti, Actor

"Every child grows; everything depends on the teacher"

Shinichi Suzuki, Musician

"We need to redefine the role of the teacher from that of the transmitter of knowledge to that of a researcher, co-learner, and partner in the process of constructing knowledge"

Loris Malaguzzi, Teacher

"Your best teacher is your last mistake"

Ralph Nader, Lawyer

"Art owes its origin to Nature herself... this beautiful creation, the world, supplied the first model, while the original teacher was that divine intelligence which has not only made us superior to the other animals, but like God Himself, if I may venture to say it"

Giorgio Vasari, Artist

"I went to school at this log school house. A white woman was my teacher, I do not remember her name. My father had to pay her one dollar a month for me. Us kids that went to school did not have desks, we used slates and set on the hued down logs for seats"

Joe Davis, Celebrity

"I always wanted to go to the Chavez school but I could never afford it when I was growing up so a lot of my learning came from magic books and watching other magicians. I was also very lucky that I had a couple of really good magic teachers"

Lance Burton, Entertainer

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

Elbert Hubbard, Writer

"If you think your teacher is tough, wait until you get a boss. He doesn't have tenure"

Bill Gates, Businessman

"I'm lucky I had some teachers who saw something in me"

Ann Bancroft, Explorer

"Suffering is one of life's great teachers"

Bryant H. McGill, Author

"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, Author

"I think good teachers are underpaid"

Peter Brimelow, Journalist

"I ain't here to argue about his facial features. Or here to convert atheists into believers. I'm just trying to say the way school need teachers the way Kathie Lee needed Regis that's the way yall need Jesus"

Kanye West, Musician

"One can make a case that says that since 85% of children being brought up in single family homes are being brought up by women that about 85% of elementary school teachers should be males to balance out the feminization that the boys and girls receive"

Warren Farrell, Writer

"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, Businessman

"It is worth while too to warn the teacher that undue severity in correcting faults is liable at times to discourage a boy's mind from effort"

Quintilian, Educator

"But I think that any young drummer starting out today should get himself a great teacher and learn all there is to know about the instrument that he wants to play"

Buddy Rich, Musician

"A good teacher, like a good entertainer first must hold his audience's attention, then he can teach his lesson"

John Henrik Clarke, Author

"Education should be one of our top funding priorities; talking about it does not help the teachers and students who desperately need promises fulfilled"

Solomon Ortiz, Politician

"I am sure it is one's duty as a teacher to try to show boys that no opinions, no tastes, no emotions are worth much unless they are one's own. I suffered acutely as a boy from the lack of being shown this"

A. C. Benson, Author

"There are a couple of teachers I have had without whose influence I would not be as happy with who I am"

Mackenzie Astin, Actor

"The sins of teachers are the teachers of sin"

William Gurnall, Author

"The message of music was also the first thing what I learned from my first teacher. She was an organist too and she was very devoted to what she played, so she had a respect for every piece and she felt that she is not allowed to add something of her own"

Kurt Masur, Musician

"The great want of our race is perfect educators to train new-born minds, who are infallible teachers of what is right and true"

Catharine Beecher, Educator

"Well, financially it's a little bit better. But it's better than than when I was a teacher. But I kind of - it's allowed me to buy a house. And I've been able to help my mother with some stuff and my brother. So, that's nice"

Clay Aiken, Musician

"We need to tap the resource of current and retiring science and math professionals that have both content mastery and the practical experience to serve as effective teachers"

Cathy McMorris, Politician

"If kids come to educators and teachers from strong, healthy functioning families, it makes our job easier. If they do not come to us from strong, healthy, functioning families, it makes our job more important"

Barbara Colorose

"Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils"

Hector Berlioz, Composer

"I stopped and gazed on the little dull man who was being paid to be a teacher of teachers. I turned and walked to the door, slammed it closed with a bang, and broken glass crashed to the floor. There was uproar behind me in the class, which did not interest me at all"

Burl Ives, Musician

"The capacity of man himself is only revealed when, under stress and responsibility, he breaks through his educational shell, and he may then be a splendid surprise to himself no less than to this teachers"

Harvey Cushing, Scientist

"There were some extremely good teachers there that were great artists really in their own right. It was actually very hard to concentrate on getting down to going any work being an art student especially when it's a flighty thing at best"

Graham Coxon, Musician