A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell, where his influence stops.
- Henry Brooks

A teacher should have maximal authority, and minimal power.
- Thomas Szaz

The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-distrust. He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him. He will have no disciple.
- Amos Bronson Alcott

If one student is bad, only that student is affected. But if one teacher is bad, hundreds of students get spoiled.
- Sri Sathya Sai Baba

In a completely rational society, the best of us would aspire to be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something less, because passing civilization along from one generation to the next ought to be the highest honor and the highest responsibility anyone could have.
- Lee Iacocca

A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
- Thomas Carruthers

The man who can make hard things easy is the educator.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson