Inspirational Quotes on Teachers

“I don't like being with grown-up people. I've known that a long time. I don't like it because I don't know how to get on with them.”

“Go ye, who rest so placidly upon the sacred Bard who had been young, and when he strung his harp was old, and had never seen the righteous forsaken, or his seed begging their bread; go, Teachers of content and honest pride, into the mine, the mill, the forge, the squalid depths of deepest ignorance, and uttermost abyss of man's neglect, and say can any hopeful plant spring up in air so foul that it extinguishes the soul's bright torch as fast as it is kindled!”

“He went to work in this preparatory lesson, not unlike Morgiana in the Forty Thieves: looking into all the vessels ranged before him, one after another, to see what they contained. Say, good M’Choakumchild. When from thy boiling store, thou shalt fill each jar brim full by-and-by, dost thou think that thou wilt always kill outright the robber Fancy lurking within—or sometimes only maim him and distort him!”

“According to Christian teachers, the essential vice, the utmost evil, is Pride.”

“The morality of clean blood ought to be one of the first lessons taught us by our pastors and teachers. The physical is the substratum of the spiritual; and this fact ought to give to the food we eat, and the air we breathe, a transcendent significance.”

“Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.”

“The greatest obscuration of the words of the Lord, as of all true teachers, comes from those who give themselves to interpret rather than do them. Theologians have done more to hide the gospel of Christ than any of its adversaries.”

“Praying gives sense, brings wisdom, and broadens and strengthens the mind. The prayer closet is a perfect schoolteacher and schoolhouse for the preacher. Thought is not only brightened and clarified in prayer, but thought is born in prayer.”

“The true aim of everyone who aspires to be a teacher should be, not to impart his own opinions, but to kindle minds.”

“Public school teachers are the new priesthood while traditional religion is ridiculed and maligned.”

“A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher who is not teaching.”

“A wisely chosen illustration is almost essential to fasten the truth upon the ordinary mind, and no teacher can afford to neglect this part of his preparation.”

“What a blind person needs is not a teacher but another self.”

“We may note in passing that He was never regarded as a mere moral teacher. He did not produce that effect on any of the people who actually met Him. He produced mainly three results-Hatred-Terror-Adoration. There was no trace of people expressing mild admiration.”

“No one is more important to the future of our state than our teachers.”

“Really great moral teachers never do introduce new moralities: it is quacks and cranks who do that.”

“The sins of teachers are the teachers of sin.”