Inspirational Teacher Quotes

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Some of the best inspirational life quotes come with reference to the teaching profession. As someone said - A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.

Why? Because when you teach someone, you are investing your time in that person's future, and you are leaving your influence on them for the rest of their life! And that's rarely time ill-spent! Is it any wonder that teaching is considered a Noble Profession by many?

Christa McAuliffe
"I touch the future. I teach."

Elbert Hubbard
"The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without his teacher. "

John Cotton Dana
"Who dares to teach must never cease to learn. "

John F. Kennedy
"A child mis-educated is a child lost."

Joseph Joubert
"To teach is to learn twice."

Mark Van Doren
"The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery."

Robert Brault
"The average teacher explains complexity; the gifted teacher reveals simplicity. "

The Talmud
"When you teach a child, you teach the child's child. "

Thomas Carruthers
"A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary."

William Arthur Ward
"The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires."

Unknown
"Teaching is the profession that teaches all the other professions."

"You might be one person to the world, but the world to one young person."

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