I've seen and met angels wearing the disguise of ordinary…

Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.

— John Steinbeck

Good teaching is more a giving of right questions than a giving of right answers.

— Josef Albers

The good teacher makes the poor student good and the good student superior.

— Marva Collins

Teachers, I believe, are the most responsible and important members of society because their professional efforts affect the fate of the earth.

— Helen Caldicott

The task of the excellent teacher is to stimulate 'apparently ordinary' people to unusual effort. The tough problem is not in identifying winners: it…

— K. Patricia Cross

Teachers open the door ... you enter by yourself.

— Confucius

Warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.

— Carl Jung

No one is more cherished in this world than someone who lightens the burden of another. Thank you.

— Joseph Addison

A teacher who can arouse a feeling for one single good action, for one single good poem, accomplishes more than he who fills our…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Bitter are the roots of study, but how sweet their fruit.

— Cato the Younger

It is told that the great Angelo, in decorating a church, painted some angels wearing sandals. A cardinal looking at the picture said to…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

Thank you for answering the call to be teachers. Thank you for the enduring impression you've made in the lives you have touched.

— Donna Fargo

“I’m looking for mushrooms. Giant ones, specifically of the deadly poisonous variety.” “How come?” “Monday is Teacher Appreciation Day, and I was thinking of…

— P.J. Bracegirdle

Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as…

— Abraham Lincoln

The teacher is one who makes two ideas grow where only one grew before.

— Elbert Hubbard