Quotes on Teachers Day

In teaching you cannot see the fruit of a day's work. It is invisible and remains so, maybe for twenty years.

One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.

The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself.

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.

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.

The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.

The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.

Education beats the beauty and the youth.

You can't stop a teacher when they want to do something. They just do it.

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

A good teacher, like a good entertainer first must hold his audience's attention, then he can teach his lesson.

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

The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.

The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-trust. He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him. He will have no disciples.

Everyone who remembers his own education remembers teachers, not methods and techniques. The teacher is the heart of the educational system.