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These 2 pages contain a large list of famous quotes about teachers that are ideal to use for educational publications, social media, and quotes of the day.

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For your convenience, my list of teaching quotes is in alphabetical order.

On this page, you will find more than 100 Quotes About Teachers. For some of the teacher quotes listed on these 2 pages, I have designed a one page poster that you can download for free.

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"A cross-eyed teacher can keep twice the number of children in order than any other, because the pupils do not know who she's looking at."

~ John R. Kemble, Four Hundred Laughs

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"Administrators need to shift from being controllers to enablers, so as to liberate the energies and talents of the teachers."

~ Steve Denning

"A gifted teacher is not only prepared to meet the needs of today's child, but is also prepared to foresee the hopes and dreams in every child's future."

~ Robert John Meehan

"A good teacher can inspire hope, ignite the imagination, and instill a love of learning."

~ Brad Henry

"A good teacher is like a candle - it consumes itself to light the way for others."

~ Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

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candle - it consumes itself to
light the way for others."
Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

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candle - it consumes itself to
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Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

"A hundred years from now, it will not matter what kind of car I drove, what kind of house I lived in, how much money I had in the bank ... but the world may be a better place because I made a difference in the life of a child."

~ Forest Witcraft

Quotes About Teachers A hundred years from now, it will not matter what kind of car I drove, what kind of house I lived in, how much money I had in the bank but the world may be a better place because I made a difference in the life of a child. Forest Witcraft

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Forest Witcraft

"A key to growing as a teacher is to keep company mainly with teachers who uplift you, whose presence inspire you and whose dedication drives you."

~ Robert John Meehan

"A master can tell you what he expects of you. A teacher, though, awakens your own expectations."

~ Patricia Neal

"As a general rule, teachers teach more by what they are than by what they say."

~ Author Unknown

"A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops."

~ Henry Brooks Adams

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"A teacher has to be a prophet who can look into the future and see the world of tomorrow into which the children of today must fit."

~ Author Unknown

"A teacher has two jobs; fill young minds with knowledge, yes, but more important, give those minds a compass so that that knowledge doesn't go to waste."

~ Mr. Holland's Opus

"A teacher is a compass that activates the magnets of curiosity, knowledge, and wisdom in the pupils."

~ Ever Garrison

"A teacher is never too smart to learn from his pupils."

~ Bill Bowerman

"A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary."

~ Thomas Carruthers

"A teacher's influence cannot be erased."

~ Author Unknown

"A teacher's job is to take a bunch of live wires and see that they are well-grounded."

~ D. Martin

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D. Martin

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A Teacher's Wish:
"I hope that the days come easy and the moments pass slow,
And each road leads you where you want to go,
And if you're faced with a choice, and you have to choose,
I hope you choose the one that means the most to you.
And if one door opens to another door closed,
I hope you keep on walkin' till you find the window,
If it's cold outside, show the world the warmth of your smile,

But more than anything, more than anything,
My wish, for you, is that this life becomes all that you want it to,
Your dreams stay big, and your worries stay small,
You never need to carry more than you can hold,
And while you're out there getting where you're getting to,
I hope you know somebody loves you, and wants the same things too,
Yeah, this, is my wish."

~ "My Wish" by Rascal Flats

"A teacher takes a hand, opens a mind,
and touches a heart."

~ Author Unknown

"A truly special teacher is very wise, and sees tomorrow in every child's eyes."

~ Author Unknown

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Author Unknown

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"Being a new teacher is like trying to fly a plane while building it."

~ Rick Smith

"Being a teacher is a very colorful job."

~ Heidi McDonald

"Discover wildlife: be a teacher!"

~ Author Unknown

"Don't feel overwhelmed by the pyramid of work that is in front of you. Just remember to take one step at a time."

~ Heidi McDonald

"Don't try to fix the students, fix ourselves first. The good teacher makes the poor student good and the good student superior. When our students fail, we, as teachers, too, have failed."

~ Marva Collins

"Do what you love. Love what you do!"

~ Author Unknown

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Love what you do!"
Author Unknown

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"Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children."

~ Charles R. Swindolls

"Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark in one another."

~ Kenny Ausubel

"Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books."

~ John Lubbock

"Every child deserves a champion - an adult who will never give up on them, who understands the power of connection, and insists that they become the best that they can possibly be."

~ Rita F. Pierson

"Every teacher is a reflection of his or her students."

~ Chris Walker

"Good teachers are the ones who can challenge young minds without losing their own."

~ Author Unknown

"Great teachers empathize with kids, respect them, and believe that each one has something special that can be built upon."

~ Ann Lieberman

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believe that each one has something special that can be built upon."
Ann Lieberman

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Ann Lieberman

"I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well."

~ Alexander the Great

I AM A TEACHER:

- I refer to my past and present students as "My Kids."
- I am not in it for the income, I am in it for the outcome.
- It's who I am. It's my passion, my calling, and my world.

I Am a Teacher - 3 Quotes About Teaching

"I am a T.E.A.C.H.E.R.
T - errific
E - nergetic
A - ble
C - heerful
H - ard working
E - nthusiastic
R - emarkable"

~ Author Unknown

"I am a teacher. I inspire my students to follow their dreams, discover their creativity, interests, and talents, and learn to use them to their fullest potential."

~ Author Unknown

Quote - I am a teacher. I inspire my students.

"I am a teacher. The only profession where you steal things from home and bring them to work."

~ Author Unknown

Quotes About Teaching - The only profession where you steal things from home and bring them to work.

"I am not a teacher, but an awakener."

~ Robert Frost

"I am not "just" a teacher, I am the manager of the world's greatest resource: CHILDREN!"

~ Author Unknown

"I believe you are your work. Don't trade the stuff of your life, time, for nothing more than dollars. That's a rotten bargain."

~ Rita Mae Brown

"Ideal teachers are those who use themselves as bridges over which they invite their students to cross, then having facilitated their crossing, joyfully collapse, encouraging them to create bridges of their own."

~ Nikos Kazantzakis

"If a doctor, lawyer, or dentist had 40 people in his office at one time, all of whom had different needs, and some of whom didn't want to be there and were causing trouble, and the doctor, lawyer, or dentist, without assistance, had to treat them all with professional excellence for nine months, then he might have some conception of the classroom teacher's job."

~ Donald D. Quinn

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Donald D. Quinn

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Donald D. Quinn

"If I ran a school, I'd give the average grade to the ones who gave me all the right answers, for being good parrots. I'd give the top grades to those who made a lot of mistakes and told me about them, and then told me what they learned from them."

~ Buckminster Fuller

"If kids come to us from strong, healthy functioning families, it makes our job easier. If they do not come to us from strong, healthy, functioning families, it makes our job more important."

~ Barbara Colorose

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Barbara Colorose

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"If we are truly effective teachers, then we are creating autonomous, independent, and self directed learners, not just successful test takers."

~ Robert John Meehan

"If you ask me what I came into this world to do, I will tell you without hesitation: I was born to be a teacher."

~ Robert John Meehan

"If you have knowledge, let others light their candles at it."

~ Margaret Fuller

"If your absence won't make any difference, your presence won't either."

~ Author Unknown

"If you really want to know about the future, don't ask a technologist, a scientist, a physicist. No! Don't ask somebody who's writing code. No, if you want to know what society's going to be like in 20 years, ask a kindergarten teacher."

~ Clifford Stoll

"If you're not having fun, you're not being the best teacher you can be."

~ Author Unknown

I love being a S.C.H.O.O.L. teacher!

clasSroom
eduCation
teacHers
nOtes
bOoks
chiLdren

~ Heidi McDonald

"I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework."

~ Lily Tomlin

"I'm a teacher. A teacher is someone who leads. There is no magic here. I do not walk on water. I do not part the sea. I just love children."

~ Marva Collins

"I'm changing the world one day at a time.
I teach."

~ Author Unknown

"In a completely rational society, the best of us would aspire to be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something less."

~ Lee Iococca

"I saw as a teacher how, if you take that spark of learning that those children have, and you ignite it, you can take a child from any background to a lifetime of creativity and accomplishment."

~ Paul Wellstone

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

~ Albert Einstein

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Albert Einstein

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"I touch the future. I teach."

~ Christa McAuliffe

"It's easy to make a buck. It's a lot tougher to make a difference."

~ Tom Brokaw

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Tom Brokaw

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