Teacher's Day is celebrated with great enthusiasm in many parts of the world.
The day is dedicated to teachers, who play an prominent role in the life of
their students. The teachers act as the guide for life, show the path towards
success and enrich the personality of their disciples by imparting ethical and
academic knowledge. They bring out the untamed talents of their students and
sharpen it in order to bring out the best results. Activists, novelists and
poets have expressed their heartfelt gratitude to their teachers in the form of
thoughtful lines, which later came to be known as quotations. Check out the
article and get some touching quotes on Teacher's Day.
Famous Sayings About Teachers
* "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
* "A gifted teacher is as rare as a gifted doctor, and makes far less money" -
Anonymous
