Teachers Day Quotes

"To teach is to learn twice."

- Teachers Day Quotes by Joseph Joubert

"The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn."
- Teachers Day Quotes by Cicero

"The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be ignited."
- Teachers Day Quotes by Plutarch

"If you promise not to believe everything your child says happens at school, I'll promise not to believe everything he says happens at home."
- Teachers Day Quotes by Anonymous Teacher

"Teaching is the only major occupation of man for which we have not yet developed tools that make an average person capable of competence and performance. In teaching we rely on the "naturals," the ones who somehow know how to teach."
- Teachers Day Quotes by Peter Drucker

"A gifted teacher is as rare as a gifted doctor, and makes far less money"
- Teachers Day Quotes by Author unknown

"Those who educate children well are more to be honored than parents, for these only gave life, those the art of living well."
- Teachers Day Quotes by 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."
- Teachers Day Quotes by Anatole France

"Better than a thousand days of diligent study is one day with a great teacher."
- Teachers Day Quotes by Japanese proverb

"Teachers, I believe, are the most responsible and important members of society because their professional efforts affect the fate of the earth."
- Teachers Day Quotes by Helen Caldicott

"A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops."
- Teachers Day Quotes by Henry Brooks Adams

"The best teachers teach from the heart, not from the book."
- Teachers Day Quotes by Author Unknown

"Teaching is the profession that teaches all the other professions."
- Teachers Day Quotes by Author Unknown

"In teaching you cannot see the fruit of a day's work. It is invisible and remains so, maybe for twenty years."
- Teachers Day Quotes by Jacques Barzun

"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.""
- Teachers Day Quotes by Dan Rather

"What the teacher is, is more important than what he teaches."
- Teachers Day Quotes by Karl Menningervv

"A teacher's purpose is not to create students in his own image, but to develop students who can create their own image."
- Teachers Day Quotes by Author Unknown

"The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires."
- Teachers Day Quotes by William Arthur Ward

"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."
- Teachers Day Quotes by Eugene P. Bertin

"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."
- Teachers Day Quotes by Amos Bronson Alcott

"Good teachers are costly, but bad teachers cost more."
- Teachers Day Quotes by Bob Talbert

"Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition."
- Teachers Day Quotes by Jacques Barzun

"A good teacher is like a candle - it consumes itself to light the way for others."
- Teachers Day Quotes by Author Unknown