Teacher Quotes

A teacher can never truly teach unless he is still learning himself. The teacher who has come to the end of his subject, who has no living traffic with his knowledge but merely repeats his lesson to his students, can only load their minds, he cannot quicken them.

I am not a teacher, but an awakener.

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

Love is a better teacher than duty.

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.

I was a disadvantaged child from a non-educated family, yet I had the advantage of being in the company of great teachers.

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

A teacher should have a creative mind.

Behind the parents stands the school, and behind the teacher the home.

If you think your teacher is tough, wait till you get a boss.

The Gates Foundation has learned that two questions can predict how much kids learn: 'Does your teacher use class time well?' and, 'When you're confused, does your teacher help you get straightened out?'

Our teachers deserve better feedback.

The best teacher is very interactive.

Experience is the only teacher we have.

You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul.

Experience is the only teacher we have. We may talk and reason all our lives, but we shall not understand a word of truth until we experience it ourselves.

No one is ever really taught by another; each of us has to teach himself. The external teacher offers only the suggestion, which arouses the internal teacher, who helps us to understand things.

The unions are the worst thing that ever happened to education because it's not a meritocracy. It turns into a bureaucracy, which is exactly what has happened. The teachers can't teach and administrators run the place and nobody can be fired. It's terrible.