Quotes About Teachers

"He who dares to teach must never cease to learn."
~ John Dana Cotton

"There are two kinds of teachers: the kind that fill you with so much quail shot that you can't move, and the kind that just gives you a little prod behind and you jump to the skies."
~ Robert Frost

"The teacher is one who makes two ideas grow

where only one grew before."~ Elbert Hubbard
"A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell

where his influence stops."~ Henry Brooks Adams
"Teaching was the hardest work I had ever done, and it remains

the hardest work I have done to date."~ Ann Richards
"It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in

creative expression and knowledge."~ Albert Einstein

"A good teacher is one who helps you become who you feel

yourself to be."

~ Julius Lester

Quotes For Teacher
Education is not the filling of a bucket but the lighting of a fire. – W.B. Yeats

If you do not have the time to read, you do not have the time to lead. – Phillip Schlechty

Students are volunteers, whether we want them to be or not. Their attendance can be commanded, but their attention must be earned. Their compliance can be insisted on, but their commitment is under their own control. – Phillip Schlechty

If you think of vision and mission as an organization's head and heart, the values its holds are its soul. – From Making Common Sense Common Practice, by Buzzotta/Lefton/Cheney/Beatty (New Leaders Press)

The best teacher is the one who suggests, rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself. – Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit. –Conrad Hilton

When one teaches, two learn. –Robert Half