1. “A good teacher must know the rules; a good pupil, the exceptions.” ― Martin H. Fischer
2. “Teachers have three loves: love of learning, love of learners, and the love of bringing the first two loves together.” ― Scott Hayden
3. “Teaching is only demonstrating that it is possible. Learning is making it possible for yourself.” ― Paulo Coelho
4. “In learning you will teach, and in teaching you will learn.” ― Phil Collins
5. “The job of an educator is to teach students to see vitality in themselves” ― Joseph Campbell
6. “The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.” ― William A. Ward
7. “What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.” ― George Bernard Shaw
8. “Those who know, do. Those that understand, teach.” ― Aristotle
9. “A teacher is one who helps others and influences lives forever.” ― Catherine Pulsifer
10. “Ask yourself: ‘Do I feel the need to laminate?’ Then teaching is for you.” ― Gordon Korman
11. “The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.” ― Mark Van Doren
12. “A good teacher can inspire hope, ignite the imagination, and instill a love of learning.” ― Brad Henry
13. “Teaching is the one profession that creates all other professions” – Unknown
14. “I never teach my pupils, I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.” ― Albert Einstein
15. “Teachers, who educate children, deserve more honor than parents, who merely gave them birth; for the latter provided mere life, while the former ensured a good life. ― Aristotle
16. “Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process. ― A. Bartlett Giamatti
17. “So what does a good teacher do? Create tension – but just the right amount.” ― Donald Norman
18. “If we teach today’s students as we taught yesterday’s, we rob them of tomorrow.” ― John Dewey
19. “It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.” ― Albert Einstein
20. “You can teach a student a lesson for a day; but if you can teach him to learn by creating curiosity, he will continue the learning process as long as he lives.” ― Clay P. Bedford
21. “Better than a thousand days of diligent study is one day with a great teacher.” — Japanese proverb
22. “Any good teacher knows how important it is to connect with students and understand our culture.” ― Adora Svitak
23. “The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.” ― Kahlil Gibran
24. “I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.” ― Alexander the Great
25. “Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theatre” – Gail Godwin
26. “In teaching you cannot see the fruit of a day’s work. It is invisible and remains so, maybe for twenty years. ― Jacques Barzun
27. “The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of the mind for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.” ― Anatole France
28. “When you study great teachers… you will learn much more from their caring and hard work than from their style.” ― William Glasser
29. “I am not a teacher, but an awakener.” — Robert Frost
30. “What the teacher is, is more important than what he teaches.” ― Karl Menninger