"Teaching is the greatest act of optimism." — Colleen Wilcox
"Education is the most powerful weapon you can use to change the world." — Nelson Mandela
"A teacher plants the seeds of knowledge, sprinkles them with love, and patiently nurtures their growth to produce tomorrow’s dreams."
"The influence of a great teacher can be felt long after the final bell rings."
"Teachers inspire dreams, shape lives, and give us hope for the future."
"Good teachers know how to bring out the best in students." — Charles Kuralt
"Teaching is the one profession that creates all other professions."
"Every great teacher is a lifelong learner."
"A teacher is a compass that activates the magnets of curiosity, knowledge, and wisdom in the pupils."
"Teachers have three loves: love of learning, love of learners, and the love of bringing the first two loves together." — Scott Hayden
"A good education can change anyone; a good teacher can change everything."
"Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire." — William Butler Yeats
"The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery." — Mark Van Doren
"To teach is to touch a life forever."
"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."
"Great teachers empathize with kids, respect them, and believe that each one has something special that can be built upon." — Ann Lieberman
"Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself." — Chinese Proverb
"Teaching is a work of heart."
"Teaching kids to count is fine, but teaching them what counts is best." — Bob Talbert
"The influence of a good teacher can never be erased."
"A good teacher is like a candle—it consumes itself to light the way for others."
"Teaching is the greatest act of optimism." — Colleen Wilcox
"Teachers can change lives with just the right mix of chalk and challenges."
"A teacher's heart facilitates a child's mind."
"The best teachers teach from the heart, not from the book."
"It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge." — Albert Einstein
"One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings."
"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
"Good teachers know how to bring out the best in students." — Charles Kuralt
"Great teachers empathize with kids, respect them, and believe that each one has something special that can be built upon." — Ann Lieberman
"The influence of a great teacher extends far beyond the classroom."
"To teach is to inspire."
"Teachers give us the roots to grow and the wings to fly."
"A good teacher is a master of simplification and an enemy of simplism." — Louis A. Berman
"Teachers appreciate when students do not quit and strive for learning the things they didn’t know before."
"Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition." — Jacques Barzun
"Teaching is not just a job. It is a human service, and it must be thought of as a mission." — Dr. Ralph Tyler
"Better than a thousand days of diligent study is one day with a great teacher." — Japanese Proverb
"Teachers make the world a better place, one student at a time."
"You can’t scare me; I’m a teacher."
"First day of school: Tears of joy from the parents. Last day of school: Tears of joy from the teachers."
"Teaching is the only profession where you steal things from home and bring them to work."
"I’m a teacher. What’s your superpower?"
"Keep calm and pretend it’s on the lesson plan."
"Behind every great student is a teacher who’s pretty sure she’s forgotten to do something."
"Teaching: The only profession where you have eyes in the back of your head."
"I’m a teacher. I can’t make everyone happy; I’m not a taco."
"Dear Math, I’m not a therapist. Solve your own problems."
"Classroom: where students come to learn and teachers come to discover that they can’t do math, either."
"Teaching middle school is like trying to staple Jello to a tree."
"I'm silently correcting your grammar."
"The voices in my head are telling me to go back to school. I might have forgotten to grade something."
"Why do they call it 'after-school' detention if it happens during school hours?"
"Recess: When the classroom becomes less of a battle zone and more of a peace treaty."
"A teacher’s job is to take a bunch of live wires and see that they are well-grounded."
"Teaching is mostly history. The rest is just dates and geography."
"My job involves making other people's kids sit down and shut up. What’s yours?"
"The problem with teaching is that there’s no ‘off’ button."
"Being a teacher is easy. It’s like riding a bike—except the bike is on fire, you’re on fire, everything is on fire, and you’re in hell."
"The best teachers teach from the heart, not from the book."
"Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn." — Benjamin Franklin
"Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire." — William Butler Yeats
"Teaching is the art of assisting discovery." — Mark Van Doren
"To educate a person in the mind but not in morals is to educate a menace to society." — Theodore Roosevelt
"A mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled." — Plutarch
"It is not what is poured into a student that counts, but what is planted."
"Teaching is more than imparting knowledge, it is inspiring change. Learning is more than absorbing facts, it is acquiring understanding." — William Arthur Ward
"The best way to predict your future is to create it." — Peter Drucker
"The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires." — William Arthur Ward
"An educator’s purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one." — Malcolm Forbes
"Teachers who love teaching teach children to love learning."
"The purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows." — Sydney J. Harris
"Great teachers empathize with kids, respect them, and believe that each one has something special that can be built upon." — Ann Lieberman
"What we learn with pleasure we never forget." — Alfred Mercier
"A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." — Henry Adams
"The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without a teacher." — Elbert Hubbard
"If we teach today’s students as we taught yesterday’s, we rob them of tomorrow." — John Dewey
"The only true gift is a portion of yourself." — Ralph Waldo Emerson
"A great teacher takes a hand, opens a mind, and touches a heart."