• A child mis-educated is a child lost. - John F. Kennedy
  • A good teacher can inspire hope, ignite the imagination, and instill a love of learning. - Brad Henry
  • A good teacher isn't someone who gives the answers out to their kids but is understanding of needs and challenges and gives tools to help other people succeed. - Justin Trudeau
  • A good teacher, like a good entertainer first must hold his audience's attention, then he can teach his lesson. - John Henrik Clarke
  • A good teacher must be able to put himself in the place of those who find learning hard. - Eliphas Levi
  • A good teacher must himself be a fellow traveller in the exciting pursuit of knowledge. - Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
  • A good teacher must know how to arouse the interest of the pupil in the field of study. - Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
  • A good teacher must know the rules; a good pupil, the exceptions. - Martin H. Fischer
  • A good teacher who can take the zero pay and help kids develop physically, emotionally, socially, is literally an angel. - Eva Amurri
  • A load of books does not equal one good teacher. - Chinese proverb
  • A professor is someone who talks in someone else's sleep. - W. H. Auden
  • A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops. - Henry Brooks Adams
  • A teacher should have maximal authority, and minimal power. - Thomas Szasz
  • 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
  • A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron. - Horace Mann
  • A true teacher defends his students against his own personal influences. - Amos Bronson Alcott
  • A word of encouragement from a teacher to a child can change a life. - John C. Maxwell
  • Better than a thousand days of diligent study is one day with a great teacher. - Japanese proverb
  • Education is not the filling of a pail but the lighting of a fire. - William Butler Yeats
  • Education is the key to success in life, and teachers make a lasting impact in the lives of their students. - Solomon Ortiz
  • Education is the most important agent of social reform. - Raja Ram Mohan Roy
  • Everyone else is your teacher. - Buddha
  • Everyone who remembers his own education remembers teachers, not methods and techniques. The teacher is the heart of the educational system. - Sidney Hook
  • Good teaching is more a giving of right questions than a giving of right answers. - Josef Albers
  • Human nature is fundamentally good, and the spread of enlightenment will abolish all wrong. - Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
  • I do not remember what I was taught, I only remember what I learnt. - Rabindranath Tagore
  • I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework. - Lily Tomlin
  • I measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress which women have achieved. - BR Ambedkar
  • 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