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Every child should have a caring adult in their lives. And that's not always a biological parent or family member. It may be a friend or neighbor. Often times it is a teacher.
Joe Manchin on teacher

What a blind person needs is not a teacher but another self.
Helen Keller on teacher

Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.
Oscar Wilde on teacher

One looks back 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 Jung on teacher

Those who know how to think need no teachers.
Mahatma Gandhi on teacher

If you think your teacher is tough, wait until you get a boss. He doesn't have tenure.
Bill Gates on teacher

You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room.
Dr. Seuss on teacher

The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.
Aristotle on teacher

Most of us end up with no more than five or six people who remember us. Teachers have thousands of people who remember them for the rest of their lives.
Andy Rooney on teacher

There are two kinds of teachers: the kind that fill you with so much quail shot that you can't move, and the kind that just gives you a little prod behind and you jump to the skies.
Robert Frost on teacher

After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books.
Albert Camus on teacher

The teacher is the one who gets the most out of the lessons, and the true teacher is the learner.
Elbert Hubbard on teacher

I had a terrible education. I attended a school for emotionally disturbed teachers.
Woody Allen on teacher

A good teacher can inspire hope, ignite the imagination, and instill a love of learning.
Brad Henry on teacher

The dream begins with a teacher who believes in you, who tugs and pushes and leads you to the next plateau, sometimes poking you with a sharp stick called 'truth'.
Dan Rather on teacher

The smarter the journalists are, the better off society is. For to a degree, people read the press to inform themselves - and the better the teacher, the better the student body.
Warren Buffett on teacher

A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.
Horace Mann on teacher

In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something else.
Lee Iacocca on teacher

We spend the first twelve months of our children's lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve telling them to sit down and shut up.
Phyllis Diller on teacher

I do not believe there is a problem in this country or the world today which could not be settled if approached through the teaching of the Sermon on the Mount.
Harry S. Truman on teacher