Famous Sayings About Teachers
- "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
- "A teacher's purpose is not to create students in his own image, but to develop students who can create their own image." - Anonymous
- "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
- "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 gifted teacher is as rare as a gifted doctor, and makes far less money" – Anonymous
