Teacher Quotes

You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul.

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.

I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.

I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.

The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.

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.

You never stop learning. If you have a teacher, you never stop being a student.

The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.

Most of us end up with no more than five or six people who remember us. Teachers have thousands of people who remember them for the rest of their lives.

In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something else.

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'.

A self-taught man usually has a poor teacher and a worse student.

Those who know how to think need no teachers.

My heart is singing for joy this morning! A miracle has happened! The light of understanding has shone upon my little pupil's mind, and behold, all things are changed!

Teach love, generosity, good manners and some of that will drift from the classroom to the home and who knows, the children will be educating the parents.

If you have to put someone on a pedestal, put teachers. They are society's heroes.

There are two kinds of teachers: the kind that fill you with so much quail shot that you can't move, and the kind that just gives you a little prod behind and you jump to the skies.

The doctrine of the Kingdom of Heaven, which was the main teaching of Jesus, is certainly one of the most revolutionary doctrines that ever stirred and changed human thought.

Every man who rises above the common level has received two educations: the first from his teachers; the second, more personal and important, from himself.

Please stop teaching my children that everyone gets a trophy just for participating. What is this, the Nobel Prize? Not everybody gets a trophy.