Great Teachers Quotes

“We must never forget our teachers, our lecturers and our mentors. In their individual capacities have contributed to our academic, professional and personal development.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind

“We must never forget our teachers and our lecturers. In their individual capacities have contributed to our academic, professional and personal development.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind

“A great teacher plants the seeds of greatness in the minds of future generations.”
― Debasish Mridha

“Ancient philosophers and spiritual teachers were explorers. They wanted us to be as well. They thought we should understand this physical world, but not get stuck here. For thousands of years we have shared their insights, over-analyzed and repeated their words; quoting and re-translating until all meaning has been lost. These great minds, great souls, great beings sought to be jumping off points, not merely the originators of emptied out and desiccated clichés. They wanted to be doorways, not doorstops.”
― Edward Fahey, The Gardens of Ailana

“Some teachers only teach us and go but some teachers teach us and they leave indelible footprints which continue to teach us forever! Great teachers live and leave distinctive footprints. Great teachers, though they go, their footprints forever live in our minds and inspire the body and the soul in a distinctive way !”
― Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

“One of the hallmarks of great teachers is that they rejoice when their students surpass them. Encouraging an atmosphere of questioning and inviting people to grow within your classroom isn’t necessarily easy; which must explain why people who want to create cults or die hard followers discourage questioning in general. They would rather have people reciting their dogma than asking hard questions.”
― Gudjon Bergmann, Create a Safe Space: An Inspirational Guidebook for Yoga Teachers Who want to Further Serve their Students

“Looking for a good book to read and a great teacher to listen to? Here is a good book and here is a great teacher: Other cultures! To read this book and to listen to this teacher, all you need is to travel!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“It brings tears of joy to a teacher’s eye when the student becomes a great success.”
― Debasish Mridha

“If there are no great teachers, how can we expect a great future?”
― Debasish Mridha

“The only way to be a master is to know the previous masters!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Great teachers are not made in training institutes. Great Teachers are made in classrooms when they are cornered, questioned and tested by students. The way teachers face these challenges with patience, efficiency and dignity defines their greatness.”
― Kavita Bhupta Ghosh, Wanted Back-Bencher and Last-Ranker Teacher