Teachers Quotes

Teachers are the one and only people who save nations.

Now know I well what people sought formerly above all else when they sought teachers of virtue. Good sleep they sought for themselves, and poppy-head virtues to promote it! To all those be-lauded sages of the academic chairs, wisdom was sleep without dreams: they knew no higher significance of life. Even at present, to be sure, there are some like this preacher of virtue, and not always so honorable: but their time is past. And not much longer do they stand: there they already lie. Blessed are those drowsy ones: for they shall soon nod to sleep.

History belongs above all to the man... who needs models, teachers, comforters and cannot find them among his contemporaries.

Teachers, who are really good create that environment where you can be very satisfied by the process of learning. If you do something and you find it a very satisfying experience then you want to do more of it. The great teachers somehow convey in their very attitude and their words and their actions and everything they do that this is an important thing you're learning. You end up wanting to do more of it and more of it and more of it. That's a real talent some people have to convey the importance of that and to reflect it back to the students.

I remember turning in my first assignment in elementary school using the computer and the teachers were kind of confused that I had printed it.

Your job is not just to do what your parents say, what your teachers say, what society says, but to figure out what your heart calling is and to be led by that.

Youth - our greatest resource - is being seriously neglected in a vital respect. The nation as a whole is not preparing teachers or building schools fast enough to keep up with the increase in our population.

Teachers need our active support and encouragement. They are doing one of the most necessary and exacting jobs in the land. They are developing our most precious national resource: our children, our future citizens.

Parents give birth; the Guru gives life. These life-givers are the soul of the magnificent building. The school building which the government can construct is like the body, but the teachers are the soul.

Every fool believes what his teachers tell him, and calls his credulity science or morality as confidently as his father called it divine revelation.

Every home is a university and the parents are the teachers.

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.

Great teachers emanate out of knowledge, passion and compassion.

Our teachers deserve better feedback.

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

If parents and teachers show the required dedication to shape the lives of the young, India would get a new life.

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

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

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