Wisdom Quotes for Teachers

A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.  ~Horace Mann

A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary. ~Thomas Carruthers

A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.  ~Henry Brooks Adams

A good teacher is like a candle - it consumes itself to light the way for others.  ~Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, translated from Turkish

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

Few public servants cost us more than bad teachers. ~Richard Forrest Blake

The mediocre teacher tells.  The good teacher explains.  The superior teacher demonstrates.  The great teacher inspires.  ~William Arthur Ward

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

Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.  ~Jacques Barzun

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
What a teacher writes on the blackboard of life can never be erased.  ~Author Unknown

The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.  ~Kahlil Gibran

Managing a classroom is not about how to use power, but about how to apply justice.  ~Richard Forrest Blake

Who dares to teach must never cease to learn.  ~John Cotton Dana
A teacher should have maximal authority, and minimal power.  ~Thomas Szaz

To teach is to learn twice.  ~Joseph Joubert

Don't try to fix the students, fix ourselves first.  The good teacher makes the poor student good and the good student superior.  When our students fail, we, as teachers, too, have failed.  ~Marva Collins

The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without his teacher.  ~Elbert Hubbard

Teaching is the only major occupation of man for which we have not yet developed tools that make an average person capable of competence and performance.  In teaching we rely on the "naturals," the ones who somehow know how to teach.  ~Peter Drucker

Teachers are expected to reach unattainable goals with inadequate tools.  The miracle is that at times they accomplish this impossible task.  ~Haim G. Ginott

The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.  ~Mark Van Doren

Great teachers are the reward that students receive; they do not need to give students anything but themselves.  ~Richard Forrest Blake

The insidious thing about material rewards for students is that teach students learning is about “things” instead of knowledge.   ~Richard Forrest Blake

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