In a completely rational society, the best of us would aspire to be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something less, because passing civilization along from one generation to the next ought to be the highest honor and the highest responsibility anyone could have. -- Lee Iacocca

A professor is one who talks in someone else's sleep. (unknown)

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

Those who can, teach.
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A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary. ~Thomas Carruthers

A poor surgeon hurts one person at a time. A poor teacher hurts 130.
-- Ernest Boyer

Who dares to teach must never cease to learn.
-- John Cotton Dana

A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.
-- Henry Brooks Adams

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.
- - Robert Louis Stevenson

A teacher has to be a prophet who can look into the future and see the world of tomorrow into which the children of today must fit. 
-- Anonymous

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

Most teachers have little control over school policy or curriculum or choice of texts or special placement of students, but most have a great deal of autonomy inside the classroom.  To a degree shared by only a few other occupations, such as police work, public education rests precariously on the skill and virtue of the people at the bottom of the institutional pyramid.  ~Tracy Kidder

A good teacher is like a candle - it consumes itself to light the way for others. 
~Author Unknown

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 a master of simplification and an enemy of simplism. 
~Louis A. Berman

Good teachers are costly, but bad teachers cost more. 
~Bob Talbert

A teacher's purpose is not to create students in his own image, but to develop students who can create their own image. 
~Author Unknown

What the teacher is, is more important than what he teaches. 
~Karl Menninger

The best teachers teach from the heart, not from the book. 
~Author Unknown

A teacher should have maximal authority, and minimal power. 
~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. 
~Marva Collins

A teacher
takes a hand
opens a mind
touches a heart
shapes the future
~unknown~