Famous Quotes for Teachers

I often wonder about teachers who educated famous people such as Einstein, Abraham Lincoln, and the like. Were these teachers specially qualified to inspire their students to achieve fame and success? Or were these teachers just plain lucky to have exceptionally talented students? Do some teachers have the rare quality of turning dust into gold? The answer may not be easy to find.
Andy Rooney
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.

Haim G. Ginott
Teachers are expected to reach unattainable goals with inadequate tools. The miracle is that at times they accomplish this impossible task.

Anonymous
Leading a child to learning's treasures, gives a teacher untold pleasures

Anonymous
Teachers don't impact for a year, but for a lifetime.

Chinese proverb
Teachers open the door. You enter by yourself.

Bill Muse
I think a secure profession for young people is history teacher, because in the future, there will be so much more of it to teach.

Howard Lester
I have been maturing as a teacher. New experiences bring new sensitivities and flexibility...

Hippocrates
I swear... to hold my teacher in this art equal to my own parents; to make him partner in my livelihood; when he is in need of money to share mine with him; to consider his family as my own brothers and to teach them this art, if they want to learn it, without fee or indenture.

Edward Blishen
Life is amazing: and the teacher had better prepare himself to be a medium for that amazement.