Teachers’ Day (India) (5th Sep)

Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people may be engaged in. That everyone may receive at least a moderate education appears to be an objective of vital importance.
Abraham Lincoln

Genius without education is like silver in the mine.
Benjamin Franklin

The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life.
Plato

The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education.
Plutarch

I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well
Alexander the Great

A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.
Henry Adams

Teacher appreciation makes the world of education go around.
Helen Peters

What the teacher is, is more important than what he teaches.
Soren Kierkegaard

If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.
Andy McIntyre

The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.
Robert M. Hutchins

He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
Victor Hugo

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

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
H.G. Wells

Without teacher appreciation there can’t be any student progress.
Theresa Grimm

The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
William A. Ward

Education’s purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
Malcolm Forbes

Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre.
Gail Godwin

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

I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.
Lilly Tomlin

Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained.
James A. Garfield

The highest result of education is tolerance.
Helen Keller

Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.
Jacques Barzun

In teaching you cannot see the fruit of a day’s work. It is invisible and remains so, maybe for twenty years.
Jacques Barzun

Teachers appreciate being appreciated, for teacher appreciation is their highest award.
William Prince

I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.
Wilson Mizner

A master can tell you what he expects of you. A teacher, though awakens your own expectations.
Patricia Neal

The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.
Mark van Doren

The dream begins with a teacher who believes in you, who tugs and pushes and leads you to the next plateau, sometimes poking you with a sharp stick called truth.
Dan Rather

Teachers are expected to reach unattainable goals with inadequate tools. The miracle is that at times they accomplish this impossible task.
Haim Ginott

None of us got where we are solely by pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps. We got here because somebody (a parent, a teacher, an Ivy League crony or a few nuns) bent down and helped us pick up our boots.
Thurgood Marshall

The good teacher makes the poor student good and the good student superior.
Marva Collins

The task of the excellent teacher is to stimulate apparently ordinary people to unusual effort. The tough problem is not in identifying winners: it is in making winners out of ordinary people.
Patricia Cross

To teach is to learn twice.
Joseph Joubert

Who dares to teach must never cease to learn.
John C. Dana

The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-distrust. He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him. He will have no disciple.
Amos Alcott

When you teach your son, you teach your son’s son.
The Talmud

Good teachers are costly, but bad teachers cost more.
Bob Talbert

A good teacher is a master of simplification and an enemy of simplism.
Louis Berman

If a doctor, lawyer, or dentist had 40 people in his office at one time, all of whom had different needs, and some of whom didn’t want to be there and were causing trouble, and the doctor, lawyer, or dentist, without assistance, had to treat them all with professional excellence for nine months, then he might have some conception of the classroom teacher’s job.
Donald Quinn

Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.
Jacques Barzun

Good teachers are costly, but bad teachers cost more.
Bob Talbert

The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-distrust. He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him. He will have no disciple.
Amos Bronson Alcott

A good teacher is like a candle – it consumes itself to light the way for others.
Anonymous

Teaching is leaving a vestige of one self in the development of another. And surely the student is a bank where you can deposit your most precious treasures.
Eugene P. Bertin

The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
William Arthur Ward

Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.
Jacques Barzun

Good teachers are costly, but bad teachers cost more.
Bob Talbert

The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-distrust. He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him. He will have no disciple.
Amos Bronson Alcott

A good teacher is like a candle – it consumes itself to light the way for others.
Anonymous

Teaching is leaving a vestige of one self in the development of another. And surely the student is a bank where you can deposit your most precious treasures.
Eugene P. Bertin

The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
William Arthur Ward

A teacher’s purpose is not to create students in his own image, but to develop students who can create their own image.
Anonymous

What the teacher is, is more important than what he teaches.
Karl Menninger

The dream begins with a teacher who believes in you, who tugs and pushes and leads you to the next plateau, sometimes poking you with a sharp stick called truth.
Dan Rather

In teaching you cannot see the fruit of a day’s work. It is invisible and remains so, maybe for twenty years.
Jacques Barzun

Teaching is the profession that teaches all the other professions.
Anonymous

The best teachers teach from the heart, not from the book.
Anonymous

A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.
Henry Brooks Adams

Teachers, I believe, are the most responsible and important members of society because their professional efforts affect the fate of the earth.
Helen Caldicott

Better than a thousand days of diligent study is one day with a great teacher.
Japanese proverb

The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
Anatole France

Those who educate children well are more to be honored than parents, for these only gave life, those the art of living well.
Aristotle

A teacher’s purpose is not to create students in his own image, but to develop students who can create their own image.
Anonymous

What the teacher is, is more important than what he teaches.
Karl Menninger

The dream begins with a teacher who believes in you, who tugs and pushes and leads you to the next plateau, sometimes poking you with a sharp stick called truth.
Dan Rather

In teaching you cannot see the fruit of a day’s work. It is invisible and remains so, maybe for twenty years.
Jacques Barzun

The best teachers teach from the heart, not from the book.
Anonymous

A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.
Henry Brooks Adams

Teachers, I believe, are the most responsible and important members of society because their professional efforts affect the fate of the earth.
Helen Caldicott

Better than a thousand days of diligent study is one day with a great teacher.
Japanese proverb

The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
Anatole France

Those who educate children well are more to be honored than parents, for these only gave life, those the art of living well.
Aristotle

Public education rests precariously on the skill and virtue of the people at the bottom of the institutional pyramid.
Tracy Kidder

If students don’t feel teacher appreciation, their whole education has failed.
Michael Balkers

Education is what most receive, many pass on, and few possess.
Karl Kraus

A good teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
Thomas Carruthers

Teachers open the door. You enter by yourself.
Chinese proverb

There are three good reasons to be a teacher: June, July, and August.
Anonymous

Often, when I am reading a good book, I stop and thank my teacher.
Anonymous

The best teachers teach from the heart, not from the book.
Anonymous

Teaching is the profession that teaches all the other professions.
Anonymous

A good teacher is like a candle: it consumes itself to light the way for others.
Anonymous

A teacher’s purpose is not to create students in his own image, but to develop students who can create their own image.
Anonymous

Teaching should be full of ideas instead of stuffed with facts.
Anonymous

By viewing the old we learn the new
Chinese Proverb

A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.
Henry Adams

Good teaching is more a giving of right questions than a giving of right answers.
Josef Albers

The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influences…
Amos Alcott

We think of the effective teachers we have had over the years with a sense of recognition, but those who have touched our humanity we remember with a deep sense of gratitude.
Anonymous student

The job of an educator is to teach students to see the vitality in themselves.
Joseph Campbell

To teach is to learn twice.
Joseph Joubert

When asked what learning was the most necessary, he said, ‘Not to unlearn what you have learned!’
Diogenes Laertius

Education…beyond all other devices of human origin, is a great equalizer of conditions of men –the balance wheel of the social machinery…It does better than to disarm the poor of their hostility toward the rich; it prevents being poor.
Horace Mann

The critical factor is not class size but rather the nature of the teaching as it affects learning.
C.B. Neblette

The task of the excellent teacher is to stimulate ‘apparently ordinary’ people to unusual effort. The tough problem is not in identifying winners: it is in making winners out of ordinary people.
K. Patricia Cross

A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.
Henry Adams

I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.
Lily Tomlin as Edith Ann

Teaching is the profession that teaches all the other professions.
Anonymous

The best teachers teach from the heart, not from the book.
Author Unknown

He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
Victor Hugo

What the teacher is, is more important than what he teaches.
Karl Menninger

None of us got where we are solely by pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps. We got here because somebody – a parent, a teacher, an Ivy League crony or a few nuns – bent down and helped us pick up our boots.
Thurgood Marshall

There are three good reasons to be a teacher – June, July, and August.
Author Unknown

Often, when I am reading a good book, I stop and thank my teacher. That is, I used to, until she got an unlisted number.
Author Unknown

Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre.
Gail Godwin

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

A good teacher is a good student first. By repeating his lessons, he acquires excellence.
M. K. Soni

My coach is like a teacher, my former manager was like a drill sergeant.
Goodbye Manager, Hello Coach

I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.
Lily Tomlin

None of us got where we are solely by pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps. We got here because somebody – a parent, a teacher, an Ivy League crony or a few nuns – bent down and helped us pick up our boots.
Thurgood Marshall

Good teaching is more a giving of right questions than a giving of right answers.
Josef Albers

Teaching is the greatest act of optimism.
Colleen Wilcox

A professor can never better distinguish himself in his work than by encouraging a clever pupil, for the true discoverers are among them, as comets amongst the stars.
Carl Von Linne

The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.
Mark van Doren

He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
Victor Hugo

Good teachers are those who know how little they know. Bad teachers are those who think they know more than they don’t know.
R. Verdi

A gifted teacher is as rare as a gifted doctor, and makes far less money.
Anonymous

It should be recognised that the proper status of teachers and due public regard for the profession of teaching are of major importance.
UNESCO (Art. 5 of 1996 Recommendation)

Modern cynics and skeptics see no harm in paying those to whom they entrust the minds of their children a smaller wage than is paid to those to whom they entrust the care of their plumbing.
John F. Kennedy

Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource.
John F. Kennedy

Let us think of education as the means of developing our greatest abilities, because in each of us there is a private hope and dream which, fulfilled, can be translated into benefit for everyone and greater strength for our nation.
John F. Kennedy

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

A true disciple shows his appreciation by reaching further than his teacher.
Aristotle

Education is the best provision for the journey to old age.
Aristotle

Bitter are the roots of study, but how sweet their fruit.
Cato

Teach the children so that it willnot be necessary to teach the adults.
Abraham Lincoln

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