Teacher Quotes

A good teacher changes lives, often without realizing it until years later. These quotes honor educators — their patience, dedication, creativity, and the underappreciated truth that teaching is one of the most demanding and important professions there is.

“The five steps in teaching an employee new skills are preparation, explanation, showing, observation and supervision.”

Bruce Barton

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“Most of us end up with no more than five or six people who remember us. Teachers have thousands of people who remember them for the rest of their lives.”

Andy Rooney

“I'm home schooled, and I have a teacher that goes with me on all my movies.”

Dakota Fanning

“So what does a good teacher do? Create tension - but just the right amount.”

Donald Norman

“I do not believe there is a problem in this country or the world today which could not be settled if approached through the teaching of the Sermon on the Mount.”

Harry S. Truman

“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.”

Swami Vivekananda

“I've never considered myself a celebrity or even part of the entertainment business. I'm a cooking teacher.”

Martin Yan

“What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.”

Thomas Carlyle

“I cannot emphasize enough the importance of a good teacher.”

Temple Grandin

“When I was a teacher, teachers would come into my classroom and admire my desk on which lay nothing whatever, whereas theirs were heaped with papers and books.”

Norman MacCaig

“I'd never been a teacher before, and here I was starting my first day with these eager students. There was a shortage of teachers, and they had been without a math teacher for six months. They were so excited to learn math.”

Andrew Shue

“He most honors my style who learns under it to destroy the teacher.”

Walt Whitman

“My parents were early converts to Christianity in my part of Nigeria. They were not just converts my father was an evangelist, a religious teacher. He and my mother traveled for thirty-five years to different parts of Igboland, spreading the gospel.”

Chinua Achebe

“You can't tell a woman who is called by God to teach that she cannot teach the Word of God... So I think the distinction is that there's a difference between the authority of a pastor and a Bible teacher.”

Charles Stanley

“A professor is someone who talks in someone else's sleep.”

W. H. Auden

“He was the editor of our paper. He created the publishing house in Hebrew. He was - I wouldn't say the 'guru' - but really he was our teacher and a most respected man. I wrote for the paper of the youth movement.”

Shimon Peres

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