Teachers

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
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. --Author Unknown
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. --Author Unknown
The best teachers teach from the heart, not from the book. --Author Unknown
"A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." --Henry Brooks Adams
"Teachers, I believe, are the most responsible and important members of society because their professional efforts affect the fate of the earth." --Helen Caldicott, author and peace activist
Better than a thousand days of diligent study is one day with a great teacher." --Japanese proverb