Best Quotes About Teachers

‘Good teachers are costly, but bad teachers cost more.’  ~Bob Talbert

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

“Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.” ~ Thomas A. Kempis.

‘A truly special teacher is very wise, and sees tomorrow in every child’s eyes.’ ~ Anonymous.

“The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.’’ ~ Mark van Doren

“Don’t try to fix the students, fix ourselves first. The good teacher makes the poor student good and the good student superior.” ~ Marva Collins

“The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.” ~ William Arthur Ward

‘‘Teaching creates all other professions.’’  ~Author Unknown

“Ideal teachers are those who use themselves as bridges over which they invite their students to cross, then having facilitated their crossing, joyfully collapse, encouraging them to create bridges of their own.”  ~ Nikos Kazantzakis

“Thought flows in terms of stories – stories about events, stories about people, and stories about intentions and achievements. The best teachers are the best story tellers. We learn in the form of stories.” ~ Frank Smith

“Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.” ~ Louis Hector Berlioz

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

“For every person who wants to teach there are approximately thirty people who don’t want to learn much.” ~ W.C. Stellar