
A teacher's job is to take a bunch of live wires and see that they are well-grounded.
The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.

A good teacher is like a candle – it consumes itself to light the way for others.
Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre.
The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.

Teachers can open the door, but you must enter it yourself.
A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.
The best teachers teach from the heart, not from the book.