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The teacher is one who makes two ideas grow where only one grew before.
Sep 29, 2025
A true disciple shows his appreciation by reaching further than his teacher.
Teachers open the door ... you enter by yourself.
Teachers can change lives with just the right mix of chalk and challenges.
Teachers, I believe, are the most responsible and important members of society because their professional efforts affect the fate of the earth.
Good teachers know how to bring out the best in students.
The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.
What nobler employment, or more valuable to the state, than that of the man who instructs the rising generation?
A good teacher, like a good entertainer first must hold his audience's attention, then he can teach his lesson.
The good teacher makes the poor student good and the good student superior.
If you want to be successful, it's just this simple. Know what you are doing. Love what you are doing. And believe in what you are doing.
None of us got where we are solely by pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps.
What office is there which involves more responsibility, which requires more qualifications, and which ought, therefore, to be more honorable, than that of teaching?
The human mind is our fundamental resource.
The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
To me the sole hope of human salvation lies in teaching.
I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.
In teaching you cannot see the fruit of a day's work. It is invisible and remains so, maybe for twenty years.
A master can tell you what he expects of you. A teacher, though, awakens your own expectations.
Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource.
The dream begins with a teacher who believes in you, who tugs and pushes and leads you to the next plateau, sometimes poking you with a sharp stick called 'truth'.
A good teacher is like a candle - it consumes itself to light the way for others.
Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people can be engaged in. That every man may receive at least a moderate education...appears to be an object of vital importance...
A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.
Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people can be engaged in.
He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life.
If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.
I've seen and met angels wearing the disguise of ordinary people living ordinary lives.
Warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.
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.
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.
Good teaching is more a giving of right questions than a giving of right answers.
What the teacher is, is more important than what he teaches.
The job of an educator is to teach students to see vitality in themselves
I never teach my pupils, I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.
Who dares to teach must never cease to learn.
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.
Thanks are the highest form of thought.
I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought; and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
I can no other answer make, but, thanks, and thanks.
No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks.
It's easy to make a buck. It's a lot tougher to make a difference.
Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.
Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.
No one is more cherished in this world than someone who lightens the burden of another. Thank you.
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.