Celebration on a World Teachers' Day October 5th 2001

This page is dedicated to all teachers around the world on a world teachers' day October 5th 2001. Thank You for doing important work.

To live a single day and hear a good teaching is better than to live a hundred years without knowing such teaching.: - Buddha
Learning and teaching are two of the most important functions in life; just as loving and being loved are important.: - Omer Baybars Tek
In the schoolhouse, we have the heart of the whole society.: - Henry Golden
The schools of the country are its future in miniature.: - Tehyi Hsieh
The future of the world is in my classroom today, a future with the potential for good or bad [...] I must be vigilant every day, lest I lose one fragile opportunity to improve tomorrow.: - Ivan Welton Fitzwater
What's done to children, they will do to society.: - Dr. Karl Menninger
To teach is to learn.: - Chinese proverb
Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself.: - Chinese proverb
To be a teacher in the right sense is to be a learner.: - Søren Kierkegaard
To teach is to learn twice.: - Joseph Joubert
Teaching is the royal road to learning.: - Jessamyn West
Thoroughly to teach another is the best way to learn for yourself.: - Tryon Adams
By learning you will teach; by teaching you will learn.: - Latin proverb
Three things give the student the possibility of surpassing his teacher: ask a lot of questions, remember the answers, teach.: - Jan Amos Coménius
Any man who has been a teacher retains something of a student within him.: - Alfred de Vigny
Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.: - Henry Ford
A learned man always keeps his riches within him.: - Caius Lulius Phaedrus
Young people do not learn only in school. Their surroundings and the times in which they live have as much, if not more, influence on them than teachers.: - Paul Valéry
The position as master or mistress in the classroom should be recognized by society and should be given the necessary authority and suitable resources.: - Jacques Delors
Teachers are expected to reach unattainable goals with inadequate tools. The miracle is that at times they accomplish this impossible task.: - Haim G. Ginot
A teacher is like a candle which lights others in consuming itself.: - Giovani Ruffini
Teachers teach because they care. Teaching young people is what they do best. It requires long hours, patience and care.: - Horace Mann
A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on a cold iron.: - Horace Mann
One learns more from a good scholar in a rage than from a score of lucid and laborious drudges.: - Rudyard Kipling
We have lots of heroes today - sportsmen, supermodels, media personalities. They come, they have their 15 minutes of fame, and they go. But the influence of good teachers stays with us. They are the people who really shape our life.: - Jonathan Sacks
We need teachers - a heroine in every classroom.: - Anonymous
The classroom - not the trench - is the frontier of freedom now and forevermore.: - Lyndon Baines Johnson
Teachers don't just teach; they can be vital personalities who help young people to mature, to understand the world and to understand themselves.: - Charles Platt
Teachers open our eyes to the world. They give us curiosity and confidence. They teach us to ask questions. They connect us to our past and future. They are the guardians of our social heritage. [...] Life without a teacher is simply not a life.: - Jonathan Sacks
The education of a child has to be a total development of the personality and this means that the human dimension of development is crucial. This is something which can only be done by teachers.: - Colin N. Power
One looks with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.: - Carl Gustav Jung
The most extraordinary thing about a really good teacher is that he or she transcends accepted educational methods.: - Margaret Mead
Everyone who remembers his own educational experience remembers teachers, not methods and techniques.: - Sidney Hook
Learning I think is the least part of education.: - John Locke
The method of teaching which approaches most nearly to the method of investigation is incomparably the best.: - Edmund Burke
A teacher must always teach to doubt his teaching.: - José Ortega y Gasset
Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.: - John Dewey
We can only teach that which we are.: - Jean Jaurès
The whole point of education is to teach by example.: - Jacques Turgot
A good teacher is one who helps you become who you feel yourself to be. A good teacher is also one who says something you won't understand until ten years later.: - Julius Lester
The dream begins, most of the time, with a teacher who believes in you, who tugs and pushes and leads you on to the next plateau, sometimes poking you with a sharp stick called truth.: - Dan Rather
There's no word in the language I revere more than 'teacher'. My heart sings when a kid refers to me as his teacher, and it always has. I've honored myself and the entire family of man by becoming a teacher.: - Pat Conroy
Thank you for answering the call to be a teacher. Thank you for the enduring impression you've made in the lives you have touched. Every community needs people like you. Your contributions are permanent. You improve our world. You are so important.: - Donna Fargo
If you plan for a year, plant a seed. If for ten years, plant a tree. If for a hundred years, teach the people. When you sow a seed once, you will reap a single harvest. When you teach the people, you will reap a hundred harvests.: - Kuan Chung
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.: - Chinese proverb
Education is light, lack of it is darkness.: - Russian proverb
Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing seamless process.: - Bartlett Giamatti
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.: - William Arthur Ward
From the time a child enters a school to the time an adult finishes the last of their education, the teacher is there helping, guiding instructing. But above all inspiring individuals to learn. Without them we have no education.: - Bill Ratteree
To question is to teach.: - Xenophon
It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question.: - Eugene Ionesco Decouvertes
To know how to suggest is the great art of teaching.: - Henri Frédéric Amiel
It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.: - Albert Einstein
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
What is the duty of the teacher if not to inspire?: - Bharati Mukherjee
The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.: - Mark Van Doren
The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence.: - Amos Bronson Alcott
The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without a teacher.: - Elbert Hubbard
The potential possibilities of any child are the most intriguing and stimulating in all creation.: - Ray L. Wilbur
When the uncapped potential of a student meets the liberating art of a teacher, a miracle unfolds.: - Mary Hatwood Futrell
He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.: - George Bernard Shaw
Only a teacher? Thank God I have a calling to the greatest profession of all!: - Ivan Welton Fitzwater
Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.: - Jacques Barzun
I beg of you to stop apologizing for being a member of the most important profession of the world.: - William G. Carr
Teaching is the world's most important job.: - UNESCO/EI-IE
In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something less.: - Lee Iacocca
Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen.: - Lee Iacocca
Good teachers are costly, but bad teachers cost more.: - Bob Talbert
Be all that you can be. Find your future - as a teacher.: - Madeline Fuchs Holzer
Better than a thousand days of diligent study is one day with a great teacher.: - Japanese proverb
More is to be got from one teacher than from two books.: - German proverb
What greater and better gift can we offer the republic than to teach and to instruct our young?: - Cicero
Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education.: - John Fitzgerald Kennedy
The war against prejudice, greed and ignorance is eternal, and those who dedicate themselves to it give their lives no less because they may live to see some fraction of their battle won.: - James Hilton
Teachers are more than any other the guardians of civilization.: - Bertrand Russel
Teachers are nation builders.: - Daljit Taneja
As teachers, we must constantly try to improve schools and we must keep working at changing and experimenting and trying until we have developed ways of reaching every child.: - Albert Shanker
Every adult needs a child to teach; it's the way adults learn.: - Frank A. Clark
Teachers, I believe, are the most responsible and important members of society because their professional efforts affect the fate of the earth.: - Helen Caldicott
Teachers have been, are and will be the essential pillars of education and therefore of our future.: - Federico Mayor
I touch the future. I teach.: - Christa McAuliffe
To teach is to touch lives forever.: - Anonymous
The best teacher is one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself.: - Anonymous
When teaching, light a fire, don't fill a bucket.: - Dan Snow
To waken interest and kindle enthusiasm is the sure way to teach easily and successfully.: - Tryon Edwards
If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.: - Derek Bok
A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell when his influence stops.: - Henry Brooks Adams
To be a teacher is to be forever an optimist.: - Philip Bigler
What office is there which involves more responsibility, which requires more qualifications, and which ought, therefore, to be more honorable, than that of teaching?: - Harriet Martineau
We cannot enter a learning society, an education age, without giving teachers the recognition they deserve.: - Federico Mayor
Teachers have an enormous role to play in the education of not only the students but the education of the nation. They are surrogate mothers. They're social workers, lawyers, doctors. They're practically everything in the community.: - Ruth Limerick
The importance of the role of the teacher as an agent of change, promoting understanding and tolerance, has never been more obvious today. It is likely to become even more critical in the twenty-first century.: - Jacques Delors
As we look at the 21st century, we recognize that societies all around the world are changing dramatically, and therefore I think teachers will make a tremendous difference in the lives of individuals, the lives of communities, and the lives of nations.: - Mary Hatwood Futrell
The 21st century must be the century of education and the century of the teacher.: - Bill Clinton
One of the prime challenges of the 21st century will be to implement the standards of democracy, human rights and education for all - to complete the unfinished business of the 20th century.: - Fred van Leeuwen
I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.: - Kahlil Gibran
I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.: - Socrates
Education is painful and not gained with playing games or being average.: - Marva Collins
An education is like a crumbling building that needs constant upkeep with repairs and additions.: - Edith Wharton
It is only the ignorant who despise education.: - Publius Syrus
Root of honesty and virtue lie in the felicity of lighting on good education.: - Plutarch
Teachers who offer you the ultimate answers do not possess the ultimate answers, for if they did, they would know that the ultimate answers cannot be given, they can only be received.: - Tom Robbins
Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theatre.: - Gail Goodwin
To teach is to hold a mirror in your hands and see the future.: - Em Del Sordo

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