Teaching creates all other professions. – Author Unknown
A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary. – Thomas Carruthers
Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater. – Gail Godwin
A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron. – Horace Mann
If you have knowledge, let others light their candles at it. – Margaret Fuller
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. – Amos Bronson Alcott
A good teacher is a master of simplification and an enemy of simplism. – Louis A. Berman
We expect teachers to handle teenage pregnancy, substance abuse, and the failings of the family. Then we expect them to educate our children. – John Sculley
Good teachers are costly, but bad teachers cost more. – Bob Talbert
The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself. – Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Teaching should be full of ideas instead of stuffed with facts. – Author Unknown
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. – Eugene P. Bertin
Teachers who inspire know that teaching is like cultivating a garden, and those who would have nothing to do with thorns must never attempt to gather flowers. – Author Unknown
Teachers who inspire realize there will always be rocks in the road ahead of us. They will be stumbling blocks or stepping stones; it all depends on how we use them. – Author Unknown
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
The average teacher explains complexity; the gifted teacher reveals simplicity. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com
Who dares to teach must never cease to learn. – John Cotton Dana
A teacher should have maximal authority, and minimal power. – Thomas Szasz
To teach is to learn twice. – Joseph Joubert, Pensées, 1842
The secret of teaching is to appear to have known all your life what you just learned this morning. – Author Unknown
