Teacher Quotes

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

"What a blind person needs is not a teacher but another self."

"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."

"Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose."

"Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important."

"Digital technology has several features that can make it much easier for teachers to pay special attention to all their students."

"Teachers believe they have a gift for giving; it drives them with the same irrepressible drive that drives others to create a work of art or a market or a building."

"I am sure it is one's duty as a teacher to try to show boys that no opinions, no tastes, no emotions are worth much unless they are one's own. I suffered acutely as a boy from the lack of being shown this."

"I should prefer to have a politician who regularly went to a massage parlour than one who promised a laptop computer for every teacher."

"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 honour for me."

"If a country is to be corruption free and become a nation of beautiful minds, I strongly feel there are three key societal members who can make a difference. They are the father, the mother and the teacher."

"The purpose of education is to make good human beings with skill and expertise... Enlightened human beings can be created by teachers."

"Creativity is the key to success in the future, and primary education is where teachers can bring creativity in children at that level."

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

"A teacher should have a creative mind."

"My father, I think he played percussion in high school. My mother played piano when she was very young, but only for a brief while. I don't think she had a great teacher. In any case, neither of them were really into music at a young age."

"In high school, my English teacher Celeste McMenamin introduced me to the great novels and Shakespeare and taught me how to write. Essays, poetry, critical analysis. Writing is a skill that was painful then but a love of mine now."

"Christine Bass was my high school music teacher. She took a program on its last legs and within a few years turned into one of the best programs in the country. Our high school dominated national choir competitions all through her 20-plus year tenure."

"My dad is a chemical engineer, and my mom was a teacher. They were pretty serious about education, but I always thought about things a little bit differently."

"I had an acting teacher tell me once that if you're playing a car salesman, you don't want to be an OK car salesman, you want to play the best car salesman."

"I was already in a band, and the teachers called my mum in and said: 'Abbey's so clever, it's a total waste if she follows her dream'. But I never wanted to do a job I didn't love, and I'd always wanted to be a model or an actress or a singer."

"I'm a good teacher and am great at observation and picking out what's wrong and fixing it."

"As far as the general public is concerned, I always tell people that you need to look like a dance teacher like you're looking for a pediatrician."

"The teacher that I was for decades, and that I still am in a certain way, wondered what was meant by the word education. I was truly dumbfounded at the very thought of dealing with such an essential and extensive subject."

"I'm a big fan of teachers."

"My mother was a teacher."

"My happiest memory of childhood was my first birthday in reform school. This teacher took an interest in me. In fact, he gave me the first birthday presents I ever got: a box of Cracker Jacks and a can of ABC shoe polish."

"My father was my teacher. But most importantly he was a great dad."

"Experience is the teacher of all things."

"Experience is a great teacher."