Benevolence alone will not make a teacher, nor will learning alone do it. The gift of learning is a peculiar talent and implies a need and a craving in the teacher himself. John Jay Chapman

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What office is there which involves more responsibility, which requires more qualifications, and which ought, therefore, to be more honourable, than that of teaching? Hariet Martineau

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Housework is a breeze. Cooking is a pleasant diversion. Putting up a retaining wall is a lark. But teaching is like climbing a mountain. Fawn M. Brodie

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One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers...with gratitude to those who touched our human feeling... Carl Gustav Jung

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It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge. Albert Einstein

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America's future will be determined by the home and the school. The child becomes largely what he is taught; hence we must watch what we teach, and how we live. Jane Adams

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Those called to teach know their success doesn't rest on pushing their charges through lesson after lesson, year after year, but rather on instilling in their students a hunger to learn. Patrick Regan

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When a teacher calls a boy by his entire name it means trouble. Mark Twain

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A teacher's day is one-half bureaucracy, one-half crisis, one-half monotony, and one-eightieth epiphany. Never mind the arithmetic. Susan Ohanian

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Education is wonderful — it makes you worry about things all over the world. Joey Adams

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Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater. Gail Godwin

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The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. A.B.Alcott

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The decent docent doesn't doze; / He teaches standing on his toes. / His student doesn't doze and does, / And that's what teaching is and was. David McCord

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Those that do teach young babes / Do it with gentle means and easy tasks. William Shakespeare

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The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without his teacher. Elbert Hubbard

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Teaching is the royal road to learning. Jessamyn West

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What was the duty of the teacher if not to inspire? Bharati Mukherjee

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The teacher is one who makes two ideas grow where only one grew before. Elbert Hubbard

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To teach is to learn twice. Joseph Joubert

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The greatest sign of success for a teacher is to be able to say, 'The children are now working as if I did not exist.' Maria Montessori

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All new knowledge gladdens the teacher only to the extent that he can teach it. Friedrich Nietzsche

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Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself. Chinese Proverb

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We teach what we need to learn. Gloria Steinem

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The best that the great teachers can do for us is to help us discover what is already present in ourselves. Irving Babbitt

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

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The professional teacher must move beyond existing models of educational theory and philosophy and become an artist and creator. Anthony Mullen

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Teaching gives me a greater sense of my own humanity. Camille Banks-Lee

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In teaching, it is the method and not the content that is the message...the drawing out, not the pumping in. Ashley Montague

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Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving for realizations, a pausing, seamless process. A. Bartlett Giamatti

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Good teaching is primarily an art, and can neither be defined or standardized. Good teachers are born and made; neither part of the process can be omitted. Joel H. Hildebrand

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