The role of a teacher is a complex one as it involves not only teaching skills but also educating students on moral, ethical and social values.
A teacher’s job is to facilitate learning and to create an environment that will help students to learn. Teachers are not responsible for creating the values that students will learn, but they should be able to guide them in the process of exploring their own values.
Teachers play an important role in the development of children and adolescents. They are also responsible for nurturing lifelong learners who can think critically and communicate effectively.
Here are some quotes to help you express your gratitude for all they do for children.
Top 63+ Best Teacher Quotes
“The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.” – Mark Van Doren
“To this end the greatest asset of a school is the personality of the teacher.” – John Strachan
“The best teacher is an entertainer.” – Bob Keeshan
“No one should teach who is not in love with teaching.” – Margaret Elizabeth Sangster
“A teacher should have maximal authority, and minimal power.” – Thomas Szasz
“What the teacher is, is more important than what he teaches.” – Karl A. Menninger
“Never discourage anyone who continually makes progress, no matter how slow.” – Plato
“We expert teachers know that motivation and emotional impact are what matter.” – Donald Norman
“Students don’t care how much you know until they know how much you care.” – Unknown
“The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself.” – Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
“A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.” – Henry Adams
“If you have to put someone on a pedestal, put teachers. They are society’s heroes.” – Guy Kawasaki
“Teaching is the greatest act of optimism.” – Colleen Wilcox
“If we teach today’s students as we taught yesterday’s, we rob them of tomorrow.” – John Dewey
“Teaching is a very noble profession that shapes the character, caliber, and future of an individual. If the people remember me as a good teacher, that will be the biggest honour for me.” – A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
“Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.” – John Dewey
“Only one person in a million becomes enlightened without a teacher’s help.” – Bodhidharma
“Let us remember: One book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world.” – Malala Yousafzai
“What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.” – George Bernard Shaw
“If you become a teacher, by your pupils you’ll be taught.” – Oscar Hammerstein
“As a teacher, my strategy is to encourage questioning. I’m the least authoritarian professor you’ll ever meet.” – Niall Ferguson
“A teacher is a person who never says anything once.” – Howard Nemerov
“The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without his teacher.” – Elbert Hubbard
“The most important part of teaching is to teach what it is to know.” – Simone Weil
“The teachers who get “burned out” are not the ones who are constantly learning, which can be exhilarating, but those who feel they must stay in control and ahead of the students at all times.” – Frank Martin
“Teaching is a profession in which capacity building should occur at every stage of the career – novices working with accomplished colleagues, skillful teachers sharing their craft, and opportunities for teacher leadership.” – Randi Weingarten
“I touch the future. I teach.” – Christa McAuliffe
“A good teacher is like a candle – it consumes itself to light the way for others.” – Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
“A true teacher defends his students against his own personal influences.” – Amos Bronson Alcott
“Teaching kids to count is fine, but teaching them what counts is best.” – Bob Talbert
“A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.” – Horace Mann
“Good teachers know how to bring out the best in students.” – Charles Kuralt
“A teacher should have a creative mind.” – A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
“If you are a lousy teacher, you should be fired.” – Geoffrey Canada
“The duties of a teacher are neither few nor small, but they elevate the mind and give energy to the character.” – Dorothea Dix
“I wanted to be a Teacher with a big T: teach the whole planet. It led me into writing and speaking to large groups.” – Jack Canfield
“If you don’t have a teacher you can’t have a disciple.” – Dallas Willard
“I am a teacher born and bred, and I believe in the advocacy of teachers. It’s a calling. We want our students to feel impassioned and empowered.” – Erin Gruwell
“Education is the key to success in life, and teachers make a lasting impact in the lives of their students.” – Solomon Ortiz
“Of all the hard jobs around, one of the hardest is being a good teacher.” – Maggie Gallagher
“Teaching is the one profession that creates all other professions.” – Unknown
“I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.” – Lily Tomlin
“The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.” – William Arthur Ward
“A good teacher can inspire hope, ignite the imagination, and instill a love of learning.” – Brad Henry
“A good teacher must know the rules; a good pupil, the exceptions.” – Martin H. Fischer
“One good teacher in a lifetime may sometimes change a delinquent into a solid citizen.” – Philip Wylie
“A good teacher is a determined person.” – Gilbert Highet
“There is no recipe to be a great teacher, that’s what is unique about them.” – Robert Sternberg
“You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room.” – Dr. Seuss
“So what does a good teacher do? Create tension – but just the right amount.” – Donald Norman
“A great teacher who is full of excitement and love for her students can make all the difference in their lives.” – Deval Patrick
“A child’s first teacher is its mother.” – Peng Liyuan
“You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.” – Khalil Gibran
“Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre.” – Gail Godwin
“I have learned that, although I am a good teacher, I am a much better student, and I was blessed to learn valuable lessons from my students on a daily basis. They taught me the importance of teaching to a student – and not to a test.” – Erin Gruwell
“Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.” – Oscar Wilde
“The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.” – Anatole France
“A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher who is not teaching.” – Gilbert K. Chesterton
“You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.” – Galileo Galilei
“I cannot emphasize enough the importance of a good teacher.” – Temple Grandin
“It’s the teacher that makes the difference, not the classroom.” – Michael Morpurgo
“It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.” – Albert Einstein
“In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something less.” – Lee Iacocca
“One time, the teacher was the storehouse of knowledge. That will no longer be so. So what would a teacher do? A very good teacher will play the role of augmenter. Also, the teacher will be located anywhere and helping students.” – Shiv Nadar
“A good teacher must be able to put himself in the place of those who find learning hard.” – Eliphas Levi
“Teachers can change lives with just the right mix of chalk and challenges.” – Joyce Meyer
“A good teacher, like a good entertainer first must hold his audience’s attention, then he can teach his lesson.” – John Henrik Clarke
“I’ve never had the patience of a teacher.” – Josh Turner
“Any good teacher knows how important it is to connect with students and understand our culture.” – Adora Svitak
“Remember that failure is an event, not a person.” – Zig Ziglar
