The task of the excellent teacher is to stimulate “apparently ordinary” people to unusual effort. The tough problem is not in identifying winners: it is in making winners out of ordinary people. – K. Patricia Cross
I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well. – Alexander the Great
Teacher appreciation makes the world of education go around. – Helen Peters
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
What the teacher is, is more important than what he teaches. – Karl Menninger
What a teacher writes on the blackboard of life can never be erased. – Author Unknown
Discover wildlife: be a teacher! – Author Unknown
When all else fails, pray for a fire drill. – Author Unknown
Summer vacation is the time when parents realize that teachers are grossly underpaid. – Author Unknown
A teacher takes a hand, opens a mind, and touches a heart. – Author Unknown
None of us got where we are solely by pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps. We got here because somebody – a parent, a teacher, an Ivy League crony or a few nuns – bent down and helped us pick up our boots. – Thurgood Marshall
Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition. – Jacques Barzun
Teaching is the profession that teaches all the other professions. – Author Unknown
The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind. – Khalil Gibran
Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre. – Gail Godwin
The only people with whom you should try to get even are those who have helped you. – John E. Southard
