Teachers Day Quotes

More is to be got from one teacher than from two books.

-- German Proverb

Better than a thousand days of diligent study is one day with a great teacher.

-- Japanese Proverb

The most extraordinary thing about a really good teacher is that he or she transcends accepted educational methods.

-- Margaret Mead

Inside every great teacher, there is an even greater one waiting to come out. -- Unknown

One learns more from a good scholar in a rage than from a score of lucid and laborious drudges.

-- Rudyard Kipling

Inspired teachers...cannot be ordered by the gross from the factory. They must be discovered one by one, and brought home from the woods and swamps like orchids. They must be placed in a conservatory, not in a carpenter shop; and they must be honored and trusted.

-- John Jay Chapman

Teachers are ordinary people engaged in extraordinary work.

-- Hayes Mizell

We expect a lot of teachers but often forget they are ordinary people. They can be magicians for some students at specific points in time, but it is the rare teacher who can consistently work his or her magic on large numbers of students.

-- Hayes Mizell

Teachers open our eyes to the world. They give us curiosity and confidence. They teach us to ask questions. They connect us to our past and future. They are the guardians of our social heritage. [...] Life without a teacher is simply not a life.

-- Jonathan Sacks

Men learn while they teach.

-- Lucius A. Seneca

To teach is to learn twice.

-- Joseph Joubert

He who dares to teach must never cease to learn.

-- Unknown

Acquire new knowledge whilst thinking over the old, and you may become a teacher of others. -- Confucius