Every truth has four corners: as a teacher I give you one corner, and it is for you to find the other three. –Confucius

Having been an educator for so many years I know that all a good teacher can do is set a context, raise questions or enter into a kind of a dialogic relationship with their students. – Godfrey Reggio

I cannot emphasize enough the importance of a good teacher. – Temple Grandin

I saw as a teacher how, if you take that spark of learning that those children have, and you ignite it, you can take a child from any background to a lifetime of creativity and accomplishment. – Paul Wellstone

Teachers should be held in the highest honor. They are the allies of legislators; they have agency in the prevention of crime; they aid in regulating the atmosphere, whose incessant action and pressure cause the life-blood to circulate, and to return pure and healthful to the heart of the nation. – Mrs. Sigourney

The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself  – Bulwer

Scratch the green rind of a sapling, or wantonly twist it in the soil, and a scarred or crooked oak will tell of the act for centuries to come.  So it is with the teachings of youth, which make impressions on the mind and heart that are to last forever. The highest function of the

The true aim of every one who aspires to be a teacher should be, not to impart his own opinions, but to kindle minds. – F.W. Robertson

Improvement depends far less upon length of tasks and hours of application than is supposed.  Children can take in but a little each day; they are like vases with a narrow neck; you may pour little or pour much, but much will not enter at a time. – Michelet

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.  – Howard Crosby

If ever I am a teacher, it will be to learn more than to teach. – Mad. Deluzy

Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner. – John Updike