A healthy and ideal system of education would be where a teacher would patiently impart knowledge, instead of curriculum, upon the students, only after assessing their acceptability – where a student would acquire knowledge in order to learn, not to earn – where the parents would be willing to make necessary sacrifices in order to adorn their child with curiosity and thereafter nourish that curiosity, regardless of how absurdly impractical it becomes to the eyes of the society.

A teacher can change a life just with appreciation and love.

The most important duty of a teacher is to not only teach but to also inspire and enhance the desire for learning.

It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn.

Only one person in a million becomes enlightened without a teacher's help.

Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater.

If I can make a teacher's salary doing comedy, I think that's better than being a teacher.

A good teacher, like a good entertainer first must hold his audience's attention, then he can teach his lesson.

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

I touch the future. I teach.

A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.

One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feeling. Curriculum is necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.

One might as well say he has sold when no one has bought as to say he has taught when no one has learned.

The secret of teaching is to appear to have known all your life what you learned only yesterday.

I am not a teacher, I am an awakener.

The reason teaching has to go on is that children are not born human; they are made so.

A teacher should have an atmosphere of awe, and walk wonderingly, as if he was amazed at being himself.

Life is amazing, and the teacher had better prepare himself to be a medium for that amazement.

A very wise old teacher once said: 'I consider a day's teaching is wasted if we do not all have one hearty laugh.' He meant that when people laugh together, they cease to be young and old, master and pupils, workers and driver, jailer and prisoners, they become a single group of human beings enjoying its existence.

I owe a lot to my teachers and mean to pay them back some day.