Instead of celebrating my birthday, it would be my proud privilege if 5 September is observed as Teachers' Day. — Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
Teachers, who educate children, deserve more honour than parents, who merely gave them birth; for the latter provided mere life, while the former ensure a good life. — Aristotle
Everyone who remembers his own education remembers teachers, not methods and techniques. The teacher is the heart of the educational system. — Sidney Hook
Once in a while our school has half days, and the teachers spend the afternoon 'in service,' which I think must be a group therapy for having to deal with us. — Neal Shusterman
Teachers, I believe, are the most responsible and important members of society because their professional efforts affect the fate of the earth. — Helen Caldicott
Let us thank all those who teach in Catholic schools. Educating is an act of love; it is like giving life. — Pope Francis
the best classroom in the world is at the feet of an elderly person. — Andy Rooney
The most important day of a person's education is the first day of school, not Graduation Day. — Harry Wong
Of all the hard jobs around, one of the hardest is being a good teacher. — Maggie Gallagher
To this end the greatest asset of a school is the personality of the teacher. — John Strachan
What is a teacher? I'll tell you: it isn't someone who teaches something, but someone who inspires the student to give of her best in order to discover what she already knows. — Paulo Coelho
The world is a university and everyone in it is a teacher. Make sure when you wake up in the morning you go to school. — T. D. Jakes
I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework. — Lily Tomlin
When you see a great teacher, you are seeing a work of art. — Geoffrey Canada
As a student I learned from wonderful teachers and ever since then I've thought everyone is a teacher. — Bill Moyers
Short Teachers Day Quotes
A teacher is never too smart to learn from his pupils. — Bill Bowerman
I'm a teacher still, but with a much larger classroom. — Rick Riordan
Who dares to teach must never cease to learn. — John Cotton Dana
A good teacher is like a candle - it consumes itself to light the way for others. — Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
Being a teacher is not what I do, it's who I am. — Jill Biden
The teacher is like the candle which lights others in consuming itself. — Giovanni Ruffini
A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops. — Henry Adams
Teaching seems to me beyond doubt the greatest of the professions. — Theodore Burghard Hurt Brameld
Teachers Day Image Quotes
Some days I wish I could go back in life. Not to change anything, but to feel a few things twice.
Inspirational Teachers Day Quotes
The Voice There is a voice inside of you That whispers all day long, "I feel this is right for me, I know that this is wrong." No teacher, preacher, parent, friend Or wise man can decide What's right for you--just listen to The voice that speaks inside. — Shel Silverstein
Mama was my greatest teacher, a teacher of compassion, love and fearlessness. If love is sweet as a flower, then my mother is that sweet flower of love. — Stevie Wonder
No one is more cherished in this world than someone who lightens the burden of another. Thank you. — Joseph Addison
When you study great teachers... you will learn much more from their caring and hard work than from their style. — William Glasser
If you always do what you did, you'll always get what you got. — Marian Diamond
If you think your teacher is tough, wait till you get a boss. — Bill Gates
They inspire you, they entertain you, and you end up learning a ton even when you don't know it — Nicholas Sparks
I used to think great teachers inspire you. Now I think I had it wrong. Good teachers inspire you; great teachers show you how to inspire yourself every day of your life. They don't show you their magic. They show you how to make magic of your own. — Alfred Doblin
Education is our passport to the future. — Malcolm X
Education beats the beauty and the youth. — Chanakya
Teacher Appreciation Quotes
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. — Carl Jung
Life is about using the whole box of crayons. — RuPaul
There's no word in the language I revere more than 'teacher.' My heart sings when a kid refers to me as his teacher, and it always has. I've honored myself and the entire family of man by becoming a teacher. — Pat Conroy
I've seen and met angels wearing the disguise of ordinary people living ordinary lives. — Tracy Chapman
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe. — H. G. Wells
Bitter are the roots of study, but how sweet their fruit. — Cato the Younger
Creativity is so delicate a flower that praise tends to make it bloom, while discouragement often nips it in the bud. — Samuel Butler
Anyone who does anything to help a child in his life is a hero to me. — Fred Rogers
What the teacher is, is more important than what he teaches. — Karl A. Menninger
None of us got where we are solely by pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps. — Thurgood Marshall
School Teachers Quotes
The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change. — Carl Rogers
Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world. — Albert Einstein
When you learn, teach, when you get, give. — Maya Angelou
Don't let anyone tell you that standardized tests are not accurate measures. The truth of the matter is they offer a remarkably precise method for gauging the size of the houses near the school where the test was administered. — Alfie Kohn
We imagine a school in which students and teachers excitedly and joyfully stretch themselves to their limits in pursuit of projects built on their own visions … not one that that merely succeeds in making apathetic students satisfy minimal standards. — Seymour Papert
When I was in school the teachers told me practice makes perfect; then they told me nobody’s perfect so I stopped practicing. — Steven Wright
Without God, life is like a school without a teacher. It is a wire with no current passing through it; it is a body with no soul. — Sathya Sai Baba
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. — Richard Buckminster Fuller
Parents teach in the toughest school in the world - The School for Making People. You are the board of education, the principal, the classroom teacher, and the janitor. — Virginia Satir
Grades don't measure anything other than your relevant obedience to a manager. — John Taylor Gatto
Teenagers these days are out of control. They eat like pigs, they are disrespectful of adults, they interrupt and contradict their parents, and they terrorize their teachers. — Aristotle
When I miss class for one day, I know it. When I miss class for two days, my teacher knows it. When I miss class for three days, the audience knows it. — Rudolf Nureyev
A teacher in a differentiated classroom does not classify herself as someone who ‘already differentiates instruction.’ Rather that teacher is fully aware that every hour of teaching, every day in the classroom can reveal one more way to make the classroom a better match for its learners. — Carol Ann Tomlinson
Iowa is home to teachers, farmers, lawyers, factory workers, and many others who work hard every day to provide the best for their families and their future. — Leonard Boswell
Collecting a teacher’s knowledge may help us solve the challenges of the day but understanding how a teacher thinks can help us navigate the challenges of a lifetime. — Adam Grant
I'd never been a teacher before, and here I was starting my first day with these eager students. There was a shortage of teachers, and they had been without a math teacher for six months. They were so excited to learn math. — Andrew Shue
Experience is the best teacher. But in our day and time, what we need is wisdom, because wisdom overcomes experience, because experience is wisdom, but there's a level of wisdom that overcomes the experience, and that's the experience that's already lived by others. I'm not trying to repeat the histories. I already learned from what they did. — RZA
I wanted to be an English teacher. I wanted to do it for the corduroy jackets with patches on the side. When I got to college, as I was walking across campus one day, I ripped off a little flyer for this sketch-comedy group. It ended up being one of the greatest things I've ever done. — John Krasinski
One good teacher in a lifetime may sometimes change a delinquent into a solid citizen. — Philip Wylie
Learning, for Elon Musk, is simply the process of downloading data and algorithms into your brain. Among his many frustrations with formal classroom learning is the ridiculously slow download speed of sitting in a classroom while a teacher explains something, and to this day, most of what he knows he’s learned through reading. — Tim Urban
Teachers open the door ... you enter by yourself. — Confucius
I think it goes back to my high school days. In computer class, the first assignment was to write a program to print the first 100 Fibonacci numbers. Instead, I wrote a program that would steal passwords of students. My teacher gave me an A. — Kevin Mitnick
My teacher Jim Rohn taught me a simple principle: every day, stand guard at the door of your mind, and you alone decide what thoughts and beliefs you let into your life. For they will shape whether you feel rich or poor, cursed or blessed. — Tony Robbins
We all have an inner teacher, an inner guide, an inner voice that speaks very clearly but usually not very loudly. That information can be drowned out by the chatter of the mind and the pressure of day-to-day events. But if we quiet down the mind, we can begin to hear what we're not paying attention to. We can find out what's right for us. — Dean Ornish
I remember the first time I saw you. Your hair was in two braids instead of one. And I remember when you... you sang in the music assembly and the teacher said... "Who knows The Valley Song?" and your hand shot straight up. After that, I... I watched you going home every day... — Suzanne Collins
The best part about being a teacher is that it matters. The hardest part about being a teacher is that it matters every day. — Todd Whitaker
Some day we'll awake, have a reformation of the heart, teach our kids honor and kill a few sex psychologists, put boys in high schools with men teachers (not sissies), close all the girls' finishing schools, shoot all the effeciency experts and become a nation of God's people once more. — Harry S. Truman
You can't stop a teacher when they want to do something. They just do it. — J. D. Salinger
If you give me rice, I'll eat today; if you teach me how to grow rice, I'll eat every day. — Mahatma Gandhi
Homework strongly indicates that the teachers are not doing their jobs well enough during the school day. It's not like they'll let you bring your home stuff to school and work on it there. You can't say, 'I didn't finish sleeping at home, so I have to work on finishing my sleep here. — Jim Benton
The older I got, the smarter my teachers became. — Ally Carter
There is no other teacher but your own soul. — Swami Vivekananda
A very wise old teacher once said: I consider a day's teaching wasted if we do not all have one hearty laugh. — Gilbert Highet
Your role as a leader is even more important than you might imagine. You have the power to help people become winners. — Ken Blanchard
As a teenager, I would tell the teacher I was sick just so I could lie down in the nurse's office and listen to my headphones, thinking about how that day may be the best day ever, but I'm only capable of acknowledging that from a sickbed, lost in my own world. — Wesley Eisold
Enter each day with the expectation that the happenings of the day may contain a clandestine message addressed to you personally. Expect omens, epiphanies, casual blessings and teachers who unknowingly speak to your condition. — Sam Keen
You know how to tell if the teacher is hung over? Movie Day. — Jay Mohr
One day, when I was doing well in class and had finished my lessons, I was sitting there trying to analyze the game of tic-tac-toe... The teacher came along and snatched my papers on which I had been doodling... She did not realize that analyzing tic-tac-toe can lead into dozens of non-trivial mathematical questions. — Martin Gardner
Many times I've called for Marius, but there was no answer. Just the endless procession of days, months, years... My teacher left me to my darkest lesson, that in the end, we are alone, and there is nothing but the cold, dark wasteland of eternity. — Stuart Townsend
We need to do everything we can to ensure every single child has an effective teacher every day, which means we need to identify who are the most highly effective teachers, and we should recognize and reward them for the incredible professionals that they are. — Michelle Rhee
I never thought that I would support myself with art - everyone in the Group of Seven had day jobs. I became a geography teacher so that I could get free field trips into the wilderness to paint. — Robert Bateman
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