"Happy Teachers Day"

• “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