You can't teach a hunter it's wrong to kill.
~ Hari Dass Baba

You teach best what you most need to learn.
~ Richard Bach

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

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

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

To know how to suggest is the great art of teaching. To attain it we must be able to guess what will interest; we must learn to read the childish soul as we might a piece of music. Then, by simply changing the key, we keep up the attraction and vary the song.
~ Henri Frederic Amiel

The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.
~ Aristotle

My object will be, if possible, to form Christian men, for Christian boys I can scarcely hope to make.
~ Thomas Arnold

A professor is one who talks in someone else's sleep.
~ W. H. Auden

I believe that every human soul is teaching something to someone nearly every minute here in mortality.
~ M. Russell Ballard

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

Unless we do his teachings, we do not demonstrate faith in him.
~ Ezra Taft Benson

The schoolmaster is abroad! And I trust to him armed with his primer against the soldier in full military array.
~ Jeremy Bentham

Life is amazing: and the teacher had better prepare himself to be a medium for that amazement.
~ Edward Blishen

There is no real teacher who in practice does not believe in the existence of the soul, or in a magic that acts on it through speech.
~ Allan Bloom

The world of knowledge takes a crazy turn when teachers themselves are taught to learn.
~ Bertolt Brecht

Housework is a breeze. Cooking is a pleasant diversion. Putting up a retaining wall is a lark. But teaching is like climbing a mountain.
~ Fawn M. Brodie

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

Arrogance, pedantry, and dogmatism... the occupational diseases of those who spend their lives directing the intellects of the young.
~ Henry S. Canby

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