If you improve a teacher’s self-esteem, confidence, communication skills or
stress levels, you improve that teacher’s overall effectiveness across the curriculum. 2. To the world you may be just a teacher but to your students you are a hero! 3. You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room. 4. 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”. 5. Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching. – Oscar Wilde 6. Those who know how to think need no teachers. – Mahatma Gandhi 7. Teachers can change lives with just the right mix of chalk and challenges. – Joyce Meyer 8. A good teacher is a determined person. – Gilbert Highet 9. I cannot emphasize enough the importance of a good teacher. – Temple Grandin 10. Experience is the teacher of all things. – Julius Caesar 11. The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery. – Mark Van Doren 12. Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward. – Vernon Law 13. The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching. – Aristotle 14. Come forth into the light of things, let nature be your teacher. – William Wordsworth 15. I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework. – Lily Tomlin 16. Good teachers know how to bring out the best in students. – Charles Kuralt 17. A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops. – Henry Adams 18. A good teacher can inspire hope, ignite the imagination, and instill a love of learning. – Brad Henry 19. I have learned silence from the talkative toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers. 20. A teacher’s job is to take a bunch of live wires and see that they are well- grounded. 21. It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge. – Albert Einstein 22. Let us remember: One book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world. – Malala Yousafzal 23. Teaching is not about information. It’s about having an honest intellectual relationship with your students. 24. The best teachers are those who show you where to look but don’t tell you what to see. 25. The day you’re willing to veer off the lesson plan, follow a kid’s lead, and learn with your students is he day you really become A TEACHER. 26. A teacher affects eternity; she can never tell where her influence stops. 27. Teaching is an intense, challenging endeavor and yet one of the most rewarding things I have experienced. – Teaching Fellow 28. Teacher confession: once a child is in my class, I will always refer to them as one on my kids even when they are grown. 29. Our job is to teach the students we have. Not the ones we would like to have. Not the ones we used to have. Those we have right now. All of them. 30. Education is too important to be left solely to the educators. 31. A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron. 32. Education is the most POWERFUL WEPON which you can use to change the WORLD. 33. 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. 34. Before any great things are accomplished, a memorable change must be made in the system of education to raise the lower ranks of society nearer to the higher. 35. A word of encouragement from a teacher to a child can change a life. A word of encouragement from a spouse can save a marriage. A word of encouragement form a leader can inspire a person to reach her potential. 36. I am a teacher. It’s how I define myself. A good teacher isn’t someone who gives the answers out to their kids but is understanding of needs and challenges and gives tools to help other people succeed. That’s the way I see myself, so whatever it is that I will do eventually after politics, it’ll have to do a lot with teaching. 37. I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit. 38. Sports are such a great teacher. I think of everything they’ve taught me: camaraderie, humility, how to resolve differences 39. Your HEART is slightly bigger than the average human heart, but that’s because you’re a teacher. 40. Heroes represent the best of ourselves, respecting that we are human beings. A hero can be anyone from Gandhi to your classroom teacher, anyone who can show courage when faced with a problem. A hero is someone who is willing to help others in his or best capacity. 41. Great teachers teach children HOW to think not WHAT to think. 42. Teaching is a very noble profession that shapes the character, caliber, and future of an individual. If the people remember me as a good teacher, that will be the biggest honor for me. 43. The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards. 44. Everyone who remembers his own education remembers teachers, not methods and techniques. The teacher is the heart of educational system. 45. A teacher is a compass that activates the magnets of CURIOSITY, KNOWLEDGE and WISDOM in the pupils. 46. The BEST teacher teaches from the HEART, not from the book. 47. Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important. 48. The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teaher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires. 49. Education is the key to success in life, and teachers make a lasting impact in the lives of their students. 50. A teacher takes a HAND, opens a MIND and touches a HEART.