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Good teachers are costly, but bad teachers cost more. (Quote by - Bob Talbert)

The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself. (Quote by - Edward Bulwer-Lytton)

What the teacher is, is more important than what he teaches. (Quote by - Karl Menninger)

A cross-eyed teacher can keep twice the number of children in order than any other, because the pupils do not know who she's looking at. (Quote by - John R. Kemble)

Teaching is leaving a vestige of one self in the development of another. And surely the student is a bank where you can deposit your most precious treasures. (Quote by - Eugene P. Bertin)

A teacher is a compass that activates the magnets of curiosity, knowledge, and wisdom in the pupils. (Quote by - Ever Garrison)

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. (Quote by - Carl Jung)

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. (Quote by - Kahlil Gibran)

The task of the excellent teacher is to stimulate "apparently ordinary" people to unusual effort. The tough problem is not in identifying winners: it is in making winners out of ordinary people. (Quote by - K. Patricia Cross)

When you teach your son, you teach your son's son. (Quote by - The Talmud)

A teacher should have maximal authority, and minimal power. (Quote by - Thomas Szaz)

Don't try to fix the students, fix ourselves first. The good teacher makes the poor student good and the good student superior. When our students fail, we, as teachers, too, have failed. (Quote by - Marva Collins)

The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without his teacher. (Quote by - Elbert Hubbard)

Teachers are expected to reach unattainable goals with inadequate tools. The miracle is that at times they accomplish this impossible task. (Quote by - Haim G. Ginott)

The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery. (Quote by - Mark Van Doren)

The only reason I always try to meet and know the parents better is because it helps me to forgive their children. (Quote by - Louis Johannot)

Teachers, I believe, are the most responsible and important members of society because their professional efforts affect the fate of the earth. (Quote by - Helen Caldicott)

Better than a thousand days of diligent study is one day with a great teacher. (Quote by - Japanese proverb)

All practical teachers know that education is a patient process of mastery of details, minute by minute, hour by hour, day by day. (Quote by - Alfred North Whitehead)

Teachers believe they have a gift for giving; it drives them with the same irrepressible drive that drives others to create a work of wit or a market or a building. (Quote by - A. Bartlett Giamatti)

The good teacher makes the poor student good and the good student superior. When our students fail, we as teachers have failed. (Quote by - Marva Collins)

I am a teacher. A teacher is someone who leads. There is no magic here. I do not walk on water, I do not part the sea. I just love children. (Quote by - Marva Collins)

A high-school teacher, after all, is a person deputized by the rest of us to explain to the young what sort of world they are living in, and to defend, if possible, the part their elders are playing in it. (Quote by - Emile Capouya)

I touch the future. I teach. (Quote by - Christa McAuliffe)

Teachers perform major miracles in America, daily. (Quote by - Meryl Streep)

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