"The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-distrust. He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him. He will have no disciple." - Amos Bronson Alcott
"A good teacher is like a candle - it consumes itself to light the way for others." -Anonymous
"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." - Eugene P. Bertin
"The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires." - William Arthur Ward
"A teacher's purpose is not to create students in his own image, but to develop students who can create their own image." - Anonymous
"What the teacher is, is more important than what he teaches." - Karl Menninger
"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." - Dan Rather
"In teaching you cannot see the fruit of a day's work. It is invisible and remains so, maybe for twenty years." - Jacques Barzun
"Teaching is the profession that teaches all the other professions." - Anonymous
"The best teachers teach from the heart, not from the book." - Anonymous
