Quotes on Teachers Day

The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.

William Arthur Ward

A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.

Henry Adams

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.

Albert Einstein

One child, one teacher, one book, one pen can change the world.

Malala Yousafzai

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.

William Butler Yeats

Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.

Aristotle

Teaching is the one profession that creates all other professions.

Unknown

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

Good teaching is more a giving of right questions than a giving of right answers.

Josef Albers

The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.

Mark Van Doren

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.

Nelson Mandela

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

Guy Kawasaki

The greatest sign of success for a teacher is to be able to say, 'The children are now working as if I did not exist.'

Maria Montessori

Good teachers know how to bring out the best in students.

Charles Kuralt

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

Aristotle

What the teacher is, is more important than what he teaches.

Karl Menninger

The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.

Robert M. Hutchins

The best teachers teach from the heart, not from the book.

Unknown

The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you.

B.B. King

Better than a thousand days of diligent study is one day with a great teacher.

Japanese Proverb