118+ Catchy Teacher & Teacher’s Day Slogans & Quotes

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Good Teacher Slogans & Quotes | Happy World Teacher’s Day

1. Every day is a teacher’s day
2. Teachers are the source of wisdom
3. Teachers are the pillars of tomorrow
4. Teaching is not a profession it’s an art
5. Life is dark without a teacher
6. If you can read this, thank a teacher
7. Teachers bless us with the power of knowledge
8. Teachers are the best guides
9. Whenever in doubt, ask a teacher
10. Teachers give the gift of education
11. We would be nothing without our teachers
12. Teachers lay the foundation for tomorrow
13. Everybody can learn but only few can teach
14. Teachers build the future
15. Once a teacher is always a teacher
16. Shape the future, start teaching
17. The teacher knows the best
18. Disrespecting teacher is disrespecting God
19. Each one Teach one
20. To teach is to touch lives forever
21. Teacher: 
    T: Talented, 
    E: Elegant, 
    A: Awesome, 
    C: Charming, 
    H: Helpful, 
    E: Efficient, 
    R: Receptive
22. Being a teacher is a privilege and having a teacher is a blessing
23. The best teachers teach from the heart, not from the book.
24. Teachers who loves teaching teach children to love learning.
25. Every student can learn, just not on the same day or in the same way.

Caring & Loving Teacher Who understands his students

1. “The secret in education lies in respecting the student.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
2. “Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.” — Albert Einstein
3. “Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it.” — Marian Wright Edelman
4. “When educating the minds of our youth, we must not forget to educate their hearts.” — Dalai Lama
5. “Teachers have three loves: love of learning, love of learners, and the love of bringing the first two loves together.” — Scott Hayden
6. “Most teachers waste their time by asking question which are intended to discover what a pupil does not know whereas the true art of questioning has for its purpose to discover what pupils knows or is capable of knowing.” — Albert Einstein
7. “If children are apparently unable to learn, we should assume that we have not as yet found the right way to teach them.” — Marie Clay
8. “A professor is someone who talks in someone else’s sleep.” — W. H. Auden
9. “The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character – that is the goal of true education.” — Martin Luther King, Jr.
10. “The job of an educator is to teach students to see vitality in themselves” — Joseph Campbell
11. “In recalling their school years, students mostly remember their teachers, and not the courses they took.” — unknown

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12. “I’ve come to the frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element in the classroom. It’s my personal approach that creates the climate. It’s my daily mood that makes the weather. As a teacher, I possess tremendous power to make a student’s life miserable or joyous. I can be a tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration. I can humiliate or humor, hurt or heal. In all situations it is my response that decides whether a crisis will be escalated or de-escalated and a student humanized or de-humanized.” — Haim Ginott
13. “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
14. “A true teacher does not terrorize ignorant students, because a true teacher knows that it is his job to cure ignorance.” — Miriam Defensor Santiago
15. “It takes a big heart to help shape little minds” — Unknown
16. “A good teacher must be able to put himself in the place of those who find learning hard.” — Eliphas Levi
17. “Not even google maps can help you if you have lost your path in life but a teacher can certainly make a new roadmap” — Unknown
18. “A teacher takes a hand, opens a mind, and touches a heart.” — Unknown
19. “A teacher’s job is to take a bunch of live wires and see that they are well-grounded.”  — D. Martin
20. “Students don’t care how much you know until they know how much you care.” — ​John C. Maxwell
21. “A good teacher is like a candle – it consumes itself to light the way for others.” — Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
22. “Good teachers know how to bring out the best in students.” — Charles Kuralt

Creative teacher who inspires students to self learn by creating curiosity

1. “The essence of teaching is to make learning contagious, to have one idea spark another.” — Marva Collins
2. “You can teach a student a lesson for a day; but if you can teach him to learn by creating curiosity, he will continue the learning process as long as he lives.” — Clay P. Bedford
3. “It must be remembered that the purpose of education is not to fill the minds of students with facts… it is to teach them to think.” — Robert M. Hutchins
4. “The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.” — William Arthur Ward
5. “Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.” — Xunzi
6. “In an effective classroom, students should not only know what they are doing, they should also know why and how.” — Harry K. Wong
7. “I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.” — Lily Tomlin
8. “I never teach my pupils, I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.” — Albert Einstein
9. “Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.” — Ezra Pound
10. “Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves.” — Ernest Dimnet
11. “Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.” — Margaret Mead
12. “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

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13. “Give the pupils something to do, not something to learn; and the doing is of such a nature as to demand thinking; learning naturally results.” — John Dewey
14. “The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.” — Mark Van Doren
15. “The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.” — C. S. Lewis
16. “Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.” — E. M. Forster
17. “What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.” — George Bernard Shaw
18. “I’m not a teacher, but an awakener.” — Robert Frost
19. “The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself.” — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
20. “Teaching is more than imparting knowledge, it is inspiring change.” — William Arthur Ward
21. “Good teaching is more a giving of right questions than a giving of right answers.” — Josef Albers
22. “A good teacher, like a good entertainer first must hold his audience’s attention, then he can teach his lesson.” — John Henrik Clarke
23. “Teachers can change lives with just the right mix of chalk and challenges.” — Joyce Meyer

Cheerful teacher who makes learning simple and fun

1. “If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.” — Albert Einstein
2. “It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.” — Albert Einstein
3. “Do not train children to learning by force and harshness, but direct them to it by what amuses their minds.” — Plato
4. “If a child can’t learn the way we teach, maybe we should teach the way they learn.” — Ignacio Estrada
5. “Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre.” — Gail Godwin
6. “Effective teaching may be the hardest job there is.” — William Glasser
7. “The best teachers in world is who teach from the heart, not from the book.” — Unknown
8. “A good teacher is a master of simplification and an enemy of simplism” — Louis A. Berman
9. “There are three things to remember when teaching: know your stuff; know whom you are stuffing; and then stuff them elegantly.” — Lola J. May

Wise teacher who makes his students independent

1. “A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary. “– Thomas Carruthers
2. “The best teachers are those who show you where to look, but don’t tell you what to see.” – Alexandra K. Trenfor
3. “The greatest sign of success for a teacher…is to be able to say, “The children are now working as if I did not exist.” — Maria Montessori
4. “Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach a man how to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.” — Unknown
5. “It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.” — Frederick Douglass
6. “True teachers are those who use themselves as bridges over which they invite their students to cross; then, having facilitated their crossing, joyfully collapse, encouraging them to create their own.” — Nikos Kazantzakis
7. “[Kids] don’t remember what you try to teach them. They remember what you are.” — Jim Henson
8. “The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without his teacher.” — Elbert Hubbard
9. “He who opens a school door, closes a prison.” — Victor Hugo
10. “Your most important task as a leader is to teach people how to think and ask the right questions so that the world doesn’t go to hell if you take a day off.” — Jeffrey Pfeffer
11. “Teachers are like gardeners, who put all their efforts just to have the best bunch of flowers.” — Unknown
12. “Teachers might not be present with us forever but they leave their knowledge to accompany us.” — Unknown
13. “A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.” — Henry Adams
14. “In teaching you cannot see the fruit of a day’s work. It is invisible and remains so, maybe for twenty years.” — Jacques Barzun
15. “By the miracle of teaching, I can give you some of my ability, without losing any of it myself.” — Ashleigh Brilliant

Passionate teacher who always keeps himself up-to-date

1. “Who dares to teach must never cease to learn.” — John Cotton Dana
2. “You teach best what you most need to learn.” — Richard Bach
3. “When one teaches, two learn.” — Robert A. Heinlein
4. “If we teach today as we taught yesterday, we rob our children of tomorrow.” — John Dewey
5. “Men, in teaching others, learn themselves.” — Thomas Lodge

Strict teacher who is hard on his students for their own benefit

1. “Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward.” — Vern Law
2. “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

Bad teaching practices and things to avoid for teachers

1. “Merely to stuff the child with a lot of information, making him pass examinations, is the most unintelligent form of education.” — Jiddu Krishnamurti
2. “A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.” — Horace Mann
3. “Do not indoctrinate your children. Teach them how to think for themselves, how to evaluate evidence, and how to disagree with you.” — Richard Dawkins
4. “There is plenty to be learned even from a bad teacher: what not to do, how not to be” — J. K. Rowling
5. “The best learners… often make the worst teachers. They are, in a very real sense, perceptually challenged. They cannot imagine what it must be like to struggle to learn something that comes so naturally to them.” — Stephen Brookfield
6. “Teachers who make Physics boring are criminals.” — Walter Lewin
7. “Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants.” — John W. Gardner
8. “I spent all my time at school in the library. Bad teachers can teach you to learn on your own.” — Gregory Colbert

Funny Quotes on Teacher / Teaching

1. “Welcome to teaching… where the kids are crazy, the parents are irrational, and the general public thinks you are lazy and overpais” — Unknown
2. “Teaching is a walk in the park… Jurassic Park” — Unknown

Thank You Message From Students To Teacher on Teacher’s Day

1. Thank you for quenching my thirst for knowledge. Happy Teacher’s Day
2. To the world you may just be a teacher, but to your students you are a star.
3. You are the sweetest teacher! Thanks for making me a smart cookie!
4. We appreciate all you do. Thank you!
5. Thank you for painting the canvas of my life with the most wonderful colours.
6. Though you wrote in black and white, but you added colors to my life. Happy Teacher’s Day
7. We bow down to you today and forever for planting seeds of knowledge. Happy Teacher’s Day
8. You are extra special
9. You are out of this world
10. From my calculations, you are the best teacher!
11. Thanks for helping me become a real ‘smartie’ pants!
12. Just a note to say you’re special
13. We think you rock
14. Thanks for helping me grow.
15. Thanks for helping us bloom.
16. We are fortunate to have you.
17. We are your biggest ‘fan’!
18. When it comes to a teacher, you’re the best of the bunch.
19. You deserve an extra Payday.

List of Teacher’s Days Celebrated Worldwide

Date	Day
First week of May	Teacher Appreciation Week
Date changes every year	Guru Purnima
5 September	Teacher’s Day
10 September	Teacher’s Day
5 October	World Teacher’s Day

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