A teacher is an individual who imparts knowledge, skills, and guidance to students or learners. Teachers play a crucial role in education by facilitating learning, fostering intellectual and personal development, and providing support to students. They can be found in various educational settings, including schools, colleges, universities, and informal learning environments. Teachers design and deliver lessons, assess student progress, and create a positive and inclusive learning environment. The role of a teacher extends beyond academic instruction, often including mentorship, guidance, and the cultivation of critical thinking and problem-solving skills in their students.
Teacher Quotes
1. “Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.”
— Margaret Mead
2. “Teachers can change lives with just the right mix of chalk and challenges.”
— Joyce Meyer
3. “Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.”
— Napoleon Hill
4. “Education breeds confidence. Confidence breeds hope. Hope breeds peace.”
— Confucius
5. “When the student is ready the teacher will appear.”
— Laozi
6. “Anything which is troubling you, anything which is irritating you, THAT is your teacher.”
— Ajahn Chah
7. “Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others.”
— Jonathan Swift
8. “I’m not a teacher, but an awakener.”
— Robert Frost
9. “There are no mistakes in life, only lessons. There is no such thing as a negative experience, only opportunities to grow, learn and advance along the road of self-mastery. From struggle comes strength. Even pain can be a wonderful teacher.”
— Robin S. Sharma
10. “A teacher should have a creative mind.”
— Abdul Kalam
11. “If you think your teacher is tough, wait till you get a boss.”
— Bill Gates
12. “I’m not a teacher: only a fellow traveler of whom you asked the way. I pointed ahead – ahead of myself as well as you.”
— George Bernard Shaw
13. “Success is a poor teacher. We learn the most about ourselves when we fail, so don’t be afraid of failing. Failing is part of the process of success. You cannot have success without failure.”
— Robert T. Kiyosaki
14. “The wisest and noblest teacher is nature itself.”
— Leonardo da Vinci
15. “Make failure your teacher, not your undertaker.”
— Zig Ziglar
16. “Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.”
— Francis Bacon
17. “Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?”
— Mary Oliver
18. “Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn.”
— Benjamin Franklin
19. “Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.”
— Denis Waitley
20. “He who can, does. He who cannot, teach.”
— George Bernard Shaw
21. “When you’re going through something hard and you start wondering where Allah is, just remember, the Teacher is always quiet during a test.”
— Nouman Ali Khan
22. “True teachers are those who use themselves as bridges over which they invite their students to cross; then, having facilitated their crossing, joyfully collapse, encouraging them to create their own.”
— Nikos Kazantzakis
23. “Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.”
— Margaret Fuller
24. “Stay committed to your decisions, but stay flexible in your approach.”
— Tony Robbins
25. “Education is learning what you didn’t even know you didn’t know.”
— Daniel J. Boorstin
26. “Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.”
— Aristotle
27. “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
28. “Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward.”
— Vern Law
29. “High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation.”
— Charles F. Kettering
30. “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.”
— C.G. Jung
31. “The shadow is the greatest teacher for how to come to the light.”
— Ram Dass
32. “If you take responsibility for yourself you will develop a hunger to accomplish your dreams.”
— Les Brown
33. “Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose.”
— Bill Gates
34. “If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself.”
— Confucius
35. “Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.”
— Alfred Tennyson
36. “Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don’t recognize them.”
— Ann Landers
37. “Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.”
— Sigmund Freud
38. “There are many things which no teacher can convey to a child of three, but a child of five can do it with ease.”
— Maria Montessori
39. “This very moment is the perfect teacher, and, lucky for us, it’s with us wherever we go.”
— Pema Chödrön
40. “If we lose the forests, we lose our only teachers.”
— Bill Mollison
41. It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.
— Albert Einstein
42. Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.
— Xunzi
43. Everyone who remembers his own education remembers teachers, not methods and techniques. The teacher is the heart of the educational system.
— Sidney Hook
44. Teachers, I believe, are the most responsible and important members of society because their professional efforts affect the fate of the earth.
— Helen Caldicott
45. A good teacher is like a candle – it consumes itself to light the way for others.
— Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
46. The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterward.
— Anatole France
47. Those that know, do. Those who understand, teach.
— Aristotle
48. Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.
— Bill Gates
49. The average teacher explains complexity; the gifted teacher reveals simplicity.
— Robert Breault
50. A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.
— George Santayana
51. The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
— William Arthur Ward
52. I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.
— Lily Tomlin
53. In teaching you cannot see the fruit of a day’s work. It is invisible and remains so, maybe for twenty years.
— Jacques Barzun
54. 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.
— Khalil Gibran
55. The dream begins, most of the time, with a teacher who believes in you.
— Dan Rather
56. 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
57. A very wise old teacher once said: I consider a day’s teaching wasted if we do not all have one hearty laugh.
— Gilbert Highet
58. True teachers are those who use themselves as bridges over which they invite their students to cross; then, having facilitated their crossing, joyfully collapse, encouraging them to create their own.
— Nikos Kazantzakis
59. The teacher is the one who gets the most out of the lessons, and that the true teacher is a learner.
— Elbert Hubbard
60. Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.
— Jacques Barzun
61. If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.
— Albert Einstein
62. A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.
— Horace Mann
63. Children learn more from what you are than what you teach.
— W. E. B. Du Bois
64. 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
65. 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.
— Andy Rooney