Quotes on teachers

“Because teachers, no matter how kind, no matter how friendly, are sadistic and evil to the core.”

“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.”

“The teachers complain that the students today are all lazy, ignorant, and stupid. But the truth is that you're smarter than they are. You're not even old enough to drive and you already know that none of this matters.”

“It is not until you change your identity to match your life blueprint that you will understand why everything in the past never worked.”

“For a game, you don’t need a teacher.”

“We don’t know anything about silent sages, buried knowledge, the eye of the mute poet, serene seers, yet how many talkative destroyers, prophets and ideologues, teachers and beautifiers there are on the other side.”

Great teachers emanate out of knowledge, passion, and compassion.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Teaching is the one profession that creates all other professions.

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'.

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

The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.

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

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

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.'

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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