417 Quotes About Teachers

Your teacher did not want to be a teacher. He wanted to be a meter reader at the electric utility. Meter readers do not have to put up with children, work comparatively little, and what is more important, have greater opportunity for corruption and are hence both better off and held in higher regard by society.

He knew instinctively the cardinal function of a teacher – which is a stout lever to raw mass.

It's strange to think about your teachers as being people.

Teachers are endless Fragrance, which lasts forever in mind of students as Knowledge

I urge you to be teachers so that you can join with children as the co-collaborators in a plot to build a little place of ecstasy and poetry and gentle joy

I had one criticism to make of my teachers. I had heard a few of them say, "Oh, I'm just a teacher." This burned me up. I told my teachers to never say this. I told them to walk proudly, with their heads held high, and to thank God they had chosen the teaching profession--the mother of all professions; that they were members working in the front line of American democracy. that they were the ground roots and not the brace roots of American democracy.

The best teacher is the one who teaches you how to be your own teacher!

There are no bad children. Bad children are the result of the bad parenting, bad educators and bad teachers

I've been wondering if in fact ideal platonic love isn't just an intensely concentrated form of what inspires the best teachers.