
Top 20 Successful Teacher Quotes
#1. The useful type of successful teacher is one whose main interest is the children, not the subject.
Walter Raleigh
#2. In the end, as any successful teacher will tell you, you can only teach the things that you are. If we practice racism then it is racism we teach.
Max Lerner
#3. I am sure that one secret of a successful teacher is that he has formulated quite clearly in his mind what the pupil has got to know in precise fashion. He will then cease from half-hearted attempts to worry his pupils with memorizing a lot of irrelevant stuff of inferior importance.
Alfred North Whitehead
#5. No bubble is so iridescent or floats longer than that blown by the successful teacher.
William Osler
#6. The successful teacher is no longer on a height, pumping knowledge at high pressure into passive receptacles ...
William Osler
#7. We need people who push boundaries rather than retreat inside them.
Tim Fargo
#8. One of the saddest things about US education is that the wisdom of our most successful teachers is lost to the profession when they retire.
John Dewey
#9. Do you have a passion for what you do and do you love what you do? If you don't, then it can be drudgery, it can be hard, it can be work. But when you find something that you enjoy a lot, then you're more willing to sacrifice a lot of things in order to be successful as a teacher.
Tubby Smith
#10. The most successful classes are those where the teacher has a clear idea of what is expected from the students and the students know what the teacher expects from them.
Harry Wong
#11. Any genuine teaching will result, if successful, in someone's knowing how to bring about a better condition of things than existed earlier.
John Dewey
#12. Teaching is successful only as it causes people to think for themselves. What the teacher thinks matters little; what he makes the child think matters much.
Alice Moore Hubbard
#13. Since God alone provides the means for the successful accomplishment of any task, it seems evident that a person needs to be called by God to be an effective teacher. Without this call to teaching, how will anyone be able to put up with everything that teachers face daily?
Basil Moreau
#14. A teacher told my mother that I would never become successful, which illustrates the difficulty of long-run forecasting on inadequate data.
Clive Granger
#15. There has never been, and there will never be, another human who will be more successful than the humble Teacher, Jesus Christ.
Monica Johnson
#16. Successful people ask questions. They seek new teachers. They're always learning.
Robert Kiyosaki
#17. Morale - the will to win, the fighting heart - are the honored hallmarks of the football coach and player. Likewise, they are characteristic of the enterprising executive, the successful troop leader, the established artist and the dedicated teacher and scientist.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
#18. Ask any successful person, and most will tell you that they had a person who believed in them ... a teacher, a friend, a parent, a guardian, a sister, a grandmother. It only takes one person, and it doesn't really matter who it is.
Sean Covey
#19. My mother was a teacher. She was grooming my brother and me to be successful, accomplished people.
Laverne Cox
#20. A writing teacher once told me that the most successful movies and books were simple plots about complex characters. You should be able to articulate your concept in a couple of lines.
James Scott Bell
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