Teachers’ Day is intended to be special day for the appreciation of teachers. This day is celebrated by many countries but on different days like in Argentina Teachers Day is celebrated on September 11 while in Chile It is celebrated on October 16.In India teachers Day is celebrated on September 5 while by U.S. it is celebrated on May 6.

Here are some Quotations on Teachers Day.

The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence – Amos Bronson Alcott.

The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards – Anatole France.

Those who educate children well are more to be honored than parents, for these only gave life, those the art of living well – Aristotle.

Good teachers are costly, but bad teachers cost more – Bob Talbert.

Teaching kids to count is fine, but teaching them what counts is best – Bob Talbert.

The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself – Edward Bulwer-Lytton.

Teaching is leaving a vestige of one self in the development of another. And surely the student is a bank where you can deposit your most precious treasures – Eugene P. Bertin.

You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him discover it in himself – Galileo.

Teachers are expected to reach unattainable goals with inadequate tools. The miracle is that at times they accomplish this impossible task – Haim G. Ginott.

Teachers, I believe, are the most responsible and important members of society because their professional efforts affect the fate of the earth – Helen Caldicott.

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

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

In teaching you cannot see the fruit of a day’s work. It is invisible and remains so, maybe for twenty years – Jacques Barzun.

Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition -Jacques Barzun.

No matter how good teaching may be, each student must take the responsibility for his own education – John Carolus S. J.

We expect teachers to handle teenage pregnancy, substance abuse, and the failings of the family. Then we expect them to educate our children – John Sculley.

What the teacher is, is more important than what he teaches – Karl Menningervv.

The task of the excellent teacher is to stimulate “apparently ordinary” people to unusual effort. The tough problem is not in identifying winners: it is in making winners out of ordinary people – K. Patricia Cross.

A good teacher is a master of simplification and an enemy of simplism – Louis A. Berman.

We teachers can only help the work going on, as servants wait upon a master – Maria Montessori.

A good teacher is like a candle – it consumes itself to light the way for others – Unknown.

The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires – William Arthur Ward .