"Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers."
— Charles W. Eliot

"There are two kinds of teachers: the kind that fill you with so much quail shot that you can't move, and the kind that just gives you a little prod behind and you jump to the skies."
— Robert Frost

"Because teachers, no matter how kind, no matter how friendly, are sadistic and evil to the core."
— Heather Brewer (Eighth Grade Bites)

"Our youth now love luxury. They have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for their elders and love chatter in place of exercise; they no longer rise when elders enter the room; they contradict their parents, chatter before company; gobble up their food and tyrannize their teachers."
— Socrates

"That disapproving look was back in her eyes. Her teacher face. The one that could make you squirm from ten paces, even if you were innocent. And I hadn't been innocent for years."
— Laurell K. Hamilton (Circus of the Damned (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter, #3))

"My English teacher has no face. She has uncombed stringy hair that droops on her shoulders. The hair is black from her part to her ears and then neon orange to the frizzy ends. I can't decide if she had pissed off her hairdresser or is morphing into a monarch butterfly. I call her Hairwoman."
— Laurie Halse Anderson (Speak)

"If a doctor, lawyer, or dentist had 40 people in his office at one time, all of whom had different needs, and some of whom didn't want to be there and were causing trouble, and the doctor, lawyer, or dentist, without assistance, had to treat them all with professional excellence for nine months, then he might have some conception of the classroom teacher's job. "
— Donald D. Quinn

"When you study great teachers... you will learn much more from their caring and hard work than from their style."
— William Glasser

"Poor Christopher-John had fallen into the hands of Miss. Daisy Crocker. I greatly sympathized him, but as in everything else, Christopher John tried to see the bright side in having to face such a shrew every morning. "Maybe she done changed," he said hopefully on the first day of school. However, when classes were over he was noticeably quiet.

"Well?" I asked him.

He shrugged dejectedly and admitted, "She still the same.""
— Mildred D. Taylor (Let the Circle Be Unbroken)

"Professors go batty too, perhaps more often than other people, although owing to their profession, their madness is less often remarked. "
— Michael Gruber (The Book of Air and Shadows)

"A good teacher is like a candle - it consumes itself to light the way for others."
— Author unkonwn

"What the teacher is, is more important than what he teaches."
— Karl Menninger

"Schools and schoolmasters, as we have them today, are not popular as places of education and teachers, but rather prisons and turnkeys in which children are kept to prevent them disturbing and chaperoning their parent."
— George Bernard Shaw

"Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils ... "
— Louis Hector Berlioz

"The chief wonder of education is that it does not ruin everybody concerned in it, teachers and taught."
— Henry Adams (The Education of Henry Adams)