Teachers Day Quotes - Page 2

• They inspire you, they entertain you, and you end up learning a ton even when you don't know it

  Nicholas Sparks

  Inspirational, Teacher, Inspire

  "Dear John". Book by Nicholas Sparks, 2006.

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• The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Inspirational, Education, Teacher

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• Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.

  Chanakya

  Inspirational, Beauty, Education

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• Education beats the beauty and the youth.

  Chanakya

  Education, Learned Person, Youth

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• The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.

  C. S. Lewis

  Education, Teacher, Teaching

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.240, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Teaching is a calling too. And I've always thought that teachers in their way are holy - angels leading their flocks out of the darkness.

  Jeannette Walls

  Teacher, Teaching, Angel

  Jeannette Walls (2009). “Half Broke Horses: A True-Life Novel”, p.40, Simon and Schuster

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• Your role as a leader is even more important than you might imagine. You have the power to help people become winners.

  Ken Blanchard

  Teacher, Business, Learning

  Ken Blanchard (2010). “The Heart of a Leader”, p.13, David C Cook

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• Teachers open the door ... you enter by yourself.

  Confucius

  Education, Teacher, Teaching

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• The real heroes are the librarians and teachers who at no small risk to themselves refuse to lie down and play dead for censors.

  Bruce Coville

  Teacher, Real, Lying

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• One good teacher in a lifetime may sometimes change a delinquent into a solid citizen.

  Philip Wylie

  Teacher, Appreciation, Citizens

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• There is no other teacher but your own soul.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Spiritual, Teacher, Soul

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2375, Manonmani Publishers

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• You can't stop a teacher when they want to do something. They just do it.

  J. D. Salinger

  Teacher, Want, Authority

  J. D. SALINGER (1951). “THE CATCHER IN THE RYE”

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• Every child should have a caring adult in their lives. And that's not always a biological parent or family member. It may be a friend or neighbor. Often times it is a teacher.

  Joe Manchin

  Family, Teacher, Children

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

  Gail Godwin

  Inspirational, Thank You, Education

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• I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.

  John Steinbeck

  Inspirational, Education, Teacher

  John Steinbeck (2003). “America and Americans and Selected Nonfiction”, p.123, Penguin

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

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Inspirational, Leadership, Education

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• When you study great teachers... you will learn much more from their caring and hard work than from their style.

  William Glasser

  Inspirational, Teacher, Teaching

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• A teacher who can arouse a feeling for one single good action, for one single good poem, accomplishes more than he who fills our memory with rows and rows of natural objects, classified with name and form.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Wisdom, Teacher, Memories

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2016). “Elective Affinities”, p.175, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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• The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without his teacher.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Inspirational, Education, Teacher

  Elbert Hubbard, Bert Hubbard (1923). “Selected writings of Elbert Hubbard: his mintage of wisdom, coined from a life of love, laughter and work”

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• A good teacher, like a good entertainer first must hold his audience's attention, then he can teach his lesson.

  John Henrik Clarke

  Education, Teacher, Teaching

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

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Education, Teacher, Teaching

  "Orphic Sayings: LXXX. Teacher". "The Dial", www.alcott.net. January 1841.

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

  Jacques Barzun

  Teacher, Appreciation, Educational

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• Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.

  William Butler Yeats

  Inspirational, Motivational, Graduation

  "Gov. Brown Uses State of the State Speech to Push Education Reforms" by Adolfo Guzman-Lopez, www.scpr.org. January 24, 2013.

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

  Jacques Barzun

  Inspirational, Education, Appreciation

  1955 In Newsweek, 5 Dec.

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• 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

  Inspirational, Education, Teacher

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