Quotes About Teachers

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


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


To teach is to learn twice.  ~ Joseph Joubert


Be an opener of doors for such as come after thee.  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson


Everything I learn about teaching I learn from bad students.  ~ John Holt


The best teachers of humanity are the lives of great men.  ~ Charles H. Fowler


The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.  ~ C.S. Lewis


Experience teaches slowly and at the cost of mistakes.  ~ James A. Froude


Education is teaching our children to desire the right things.  ~ Plato


Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach.  ~ Aristotle


If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.  ~ Tryon Edwards


You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil.  ~ Friedrich Nietzsche


I am not a teacher, I am an awakener.  ~ Robert Frost


The teacher is one who makes two ideas grow where only one grew before.  ~ Elbert Hubbard


We need to teach the next generation of children from day one that they are responsible for their lives.  ~ Elisabeth Kubler-Ross


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


Teaching is the greatest act of optimism.  ~ Colleen Wilcox


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


It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.  ~ Albert Einstein


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


Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself.  ~ Chinese Proverb


When you learn, teach, when you get, give.  ~ Maya Angelou


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