Those who educate children well are more to be honored than parents, for these only gave life, those the art of living well.
– Aristotle

In teaching you cannot see the fruit of a day’s work. It is invisible and remains so, maybe for twenty years.
– Jacques Barzun

A good teacher is a master of simplification and an enemy of simplism.
– Louis A. Berman

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 best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself.
– Edward Bulwer-Lytton

What nobler employment, or more valuable to the state, than that of the man who instructs the rising generation.
– Cicero

“A hundred years from now it will not matter what my bank account was, the sort of house I lived in, or the kind of car I drove . . . . but the world maybe different because I was important in the life of a child.” – Kathy Davis

“I touch the future. I teach.” – Christa McAuliffe.

“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

“Teachers teach because they care. Teaching young people is what they do best. It requires long hours, patience, and care.”
–Horace Mann

“The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.”
–William Arthur Ward

“The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.”
–Mark Van Doren

“It’s hard to beat a person who never gives up.”
–Babe Ruth