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.
I am not a teacher, but an awakener.
The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.
The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself.
It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.
Teachers can open the door, but you must enter it yourself.
The great teacher is not the man who supplies the most facts, but the one in whose presence we become different people.
Teaching is the greatest act of optimism.
To teach is to learn twice.
A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
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.
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.
The best teachers are those who show you where to look but don't tell you what to see.
A master can tell you what he expects of you. A teacher, though, awakens your own expectations.
The best teachers teach from the heart, not from the book.