Teacher Quotes: Inspiring Words for Educators

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

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

"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

"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

"Suffering is one of life's great teachers"

Bryant H. McGill, Author

"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

"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

"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

"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

"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 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

"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 sins of teachers are the teachers of sin"

William Gurnall, Author

"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

"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

"Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty"

Cicero, Philosopher

"Those who know how to think need no teachers"

Mahatma Gandhi, Leader

"The smarter the journalists are, the better off society is. For to a degree, people read the press to inform themselves-and the better the teacher, the better the student body"

Warren Buffett, Businessman

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

Albert Einstein, Physicist

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

Elbert Hubbard, Writer

"Love is a better teacher than duty"

Albert Einstein, Physicist

"The teacher is the one who gets the most out of the lessons, and the true teacher is the learner"

Elbert Hubbard, Writer

"Your best teacher is your last mistake"

Ralph Nader, Lawyer

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

Bill Gates, Businessman

"Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose"

Bill Gates, Businessman

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

Bill Gates, Businessman

"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, Psychologist

"I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers"

Kahlil Gibran, Poet

"I could undertake to be an efficient pupil if it were possible to find an efficient teacher"

Gertrude Stein, Author

"If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself"

Confucius, Philosopher

"I had a terrible education. I attended a school for emotionally disturbed teachers"

Woody Allen, Director

"Having been an educator for so many years I know that all a good teacher can do is set a context, raise questions or enter into a kind of a dialogic relationship with their students"

Godfrey Reggio, Director

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

Dan Quayle, Vice President

"After taking my B.A. degree in 1939 I remained at the University for a further year to take an advanced course in Biochemistry, and surprised myself and my teachers by obtaining a first class examination result"

Frederick Sanger, Scientist

"What a blind person needs is not a teacher but another self"

Helen Keller, Author

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