Happy Teachers Day 2011

"Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition." - Jacques Barzun

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

    "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

    "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
    "Better than a thousand days of diligent study is one day with a great teacher." -Japanese proverb

    "The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards." -Anatole France

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

• Dan Rather
  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.
• Henry Brooks Adams
  A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.
• Robert Brault
  The average teacher explains complexity; the gifted teacher reveals simplicity.
• Cicero
  The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
• Jacques Barzun
  In teaching, you cannot see the fruit of a day's work. It is invisible and remains so, maybe for twenty years.
• Helen Caldicott
  Teachers, I believe, are the most responsible and important members of society because their professional efforts affect the fate of the earth.
• Albert Einstein
  It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.
• Nikos Kazantzakis
  Ideal teachers are those who use themselves as bridges over which they invite their students to cross, then having facilitated their crossing, joyfully collapse, encouraging them to create bridges of their own.
• Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  A teacher who can arouse a feeling for one single good action, for one single good poem, accomplishes more than he who fills our memory with rows and rows of natural objects, classified with name and form.
• Ken Blanchard
  Your role as a leader is even more important than you might imagine. You have the power to help people become winners.
• William Butler Yeats
  Education is not the filling of a pail but the lighting of a fire.
• Forest Witchcraft
  A hundred years from now, it will not matter what kind of car I drove, what kind of house I lived in, how much money I had in the bank, but the world may be a better place because I made a difference in the life of a child.
• I often wonder about teachers who educated famous people such as Einstein, Abraham Lincoln, and the like. Were these teachers specially qualified to inspire their students to achieve fame and success? Or were these teachers just plain lucky to have exceptionally talented students? Do some teachers have the rare quality of turning dust into gold? The answer may not be easy to find.