Great Teaching Quotes:

A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.

- Henry Adams

source: The Education of Henry Adams ch. 20 (1907)

topic: Inspirational, Leadership, Education, Math Teacher, Inspirational Education

The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.

- Carl Rogers

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Education, Inspirational Education, Spiritual Education

Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.

- E. M. Forster

source: "The BBC Talks of E.M. Forster, 1929-1960: A Selected Edition". Book by Edward Morgan Forster, ‎Mary Lago, ‎Linda K. Hughes, June 3, 2008.

topic: Inspirational, Education, Running, Self Education, Good Students

Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.

- Xunzi

topic: Inspiring, Leadership, Teacher, Live And Learn, Special Education

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

- Horace Mann

source: Horace Mann (1867). “Thoughts”, p.225

topic: Inspirational, Inspiring, Education, Joy Of Learning, Methods Of Teaching

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

topic: Inspirational, Education, Teacher, Inspirational Teacher, Parents And Teachers

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

- Mahatma Gandhi

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Independence Of Thought, About Success

The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.

- Khalil Gibran

topic: Inspirational, Education, Wise, Inspirational Education, Inspirational Educational

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

- Haim Ginott

source: "Teacher and child". Book by Haim Ginott, 1972.

topic: Appreciation, Teacher, Teaching, Good Teacher, Inadequate

Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre.

- Gail Godwin

topic: Inspirational, Thank You, Education, Good Teacher, Good Students

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.

- Helen Keller

source: "Optimism". Essay by Helen Keller, 1903.

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Positive, Improve Self Esteem, Inspirational Achievement

I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.

- Alexander the Great

topic: Fathers Day, Teacher, Teaching, Great Father, Indebted

The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.

- Sydney J. Harris

source: Sydney J. Harris (1985). “Pieces of Eight Pa”, Mariner Books

topic: Graduation, Education, Wall, Inspirational Education, Inspirational Graduation

One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.

- Carl Jung

topic: Teacher, Gratitude, Appreciation, Math Education, Math Teacher

He who opens a school door, closes a prison.

- Victor Hugo

topic: Education, Teacher, Appreciation, Teacher Student, Student Learning

Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Inspirational, Witty, Business, Making A Living, Life Is Simple

Most of us end up with no more than five or six people who remember us. Teachers have thousands of people who remember them for the rest of their lives.

- Andy Rooney

topic: Teacher, People, Literature, Inspirational Teacher, Teachers And Teaching

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Inspirational, Positive, Encouraging, Forward In Life, Math Education

What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul.

- Joseph Addison

topic: Inspiring, Education, Art, Joy Of Learning, Inspirational Education

The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-trust. He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him. He will have no disciples.

- Amos Bronson Alcott

topic: Education, Teacher, Eye, Good Teacher, Good Teaching

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

- Jacques Barzun

source: 1955 In Newsweek, 5 Dec.

topic: Inspirational, Education, Teacher, Inspirational Educational, Inspirational Teacher

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

- Jacques Barzun

topic: Appreciation, Teacher, Educational, Inspirational Education, Inspirational Educational

If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.

- Derek Bok

topic: Inspirational, Graduation, Education, Inspirational Graduation, Inspirational High School Graduation

It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.

- Jacob Bronowski

source: "'The Ascent of Man' ('Knowledge or Certainty')". Documentary TV Mini-Series, Episode 11, 1973.

topic: Inspirational, Education, Teacher, Knowledge Education, Knowledge Learning

The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.

- Robert M. Hutchins

topic: Life, Education, Teacher, Inspirational Education, Inspirational School

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.

- Nelson Mandela

topic: Inspirational, Change, Inspiring, Social Power, Social Studies

What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.

- George Bernard Shaw

topic: Inspirational, Education, Teacher, Inspirational Learning, Inspirational School

I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.

- Winston Churchill

topic: Funny, Leadership, Education, Managing Change, Going Back To School

What nobler employment, or more valuable to the state, than that of the man who instructs the rising generation?

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

topic: Education, Teacher, Teaching, Teacher Motivational, Thanking Teachers

Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.

- Will Durant

topic: Graduation, Education, Witty, Medical Education, Inspirational Education

I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

- Confucius

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Positive, Math Education, Inspirational Education

The basic idea behind teaching is to teach people what they need to know.

- Carl Rogers

topic: Inspirational, Teaching, Ideas, Education And Teachers, Great Teaching

Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.

- Hector Berlioz

source: "About Time: Einstein's Unfinished Revolution". Book by Paul Davies, 1996.

topic: Education, Teacher, Time, Teacher Student, Short Time

It is only as we develop others that we permanently succeed.

- Harvey S. Firestone

topic: Inspirational, Success, Educational, Leadership Teamwork, Great Teacher

If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.

- Tryon Edwards

source: Tryon Edwards (2015). “The New Dictionary of Thoughts”, p.717, Ravenio Books

topic: Education, Teacher, Teach, Teaching Others, Teachers From Kids

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

topic: Leadership, Teacher, Teenage, Good Teacher, Substance Abuse

Seldom was any knowledge given to keep, but to impart; the grace of this rich jewel is lost in concealment.

- Joseph Hall

source: Joseph Hall (1837). “The Works of Joseph Hall DD Successively Bishop of Exeter and Norwich: With Some Account of His Life and Sufferings”, p.82

topic: Teacher, Knowledge, Science, Inspirational Teacher, Great Teaching

He that teaches us anything which we knew not before is undoubtedly to be reverenced as a master.

- Samuel Johnson

source: Samuel Johnson, Hester Lynch Piozzi, James Boswell (1787). “The Beauties of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Consisting of Maxims and Observations, Moral, Critical, and Miscellaneous, to which are Now Added, Biographical Anecdotes of the Doctor, Selected from the Late Productions of Mrs. Piozzi, Mr. Boswell, ...”, p.9

topic: Inspirational, Education, Teacher, Great Teaching, Being A Teacher

Education costs money. But then so does ignorance.

- Claus Moser, Baron Moser

topic: Inspirational, Ignorance, Doe, Inspirational Educational, Learning English

I've come to the frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element in the classroom. It's my personal approach that creates the climate. It's my daily mood that makes the weather. As a teacher, I possess tremendous power to make a student's life miserable or joyous. I can be a tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration. I can humiliate or humor, hurt or heal. In all situations it is my response that decides whether a crisis will be escalated or de-escalated and a student humanized or de-humanized.

- Haim Ginott

source: "Fair Isn't Always Equal: Assessing & Grading in the Differentiated Classroom". Book by Rick Wormeli, p. 9, 2006.

topic: Education, Teacher, Hurt, Inspirational Teacher, Learning And Growing

Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.

- G. M. Trevelyan

source: English Social History ch. 18 (1942)

topic: Education, Reading, Teaching, Methods Of Teaching, Intelligence And Education

In learning you will teach, and in teaching you will learn.

- Phil Collins

source: Song: Son Of Man

topic: Inspirational, Education, Teacher, Inspirational Learning, Good Teaching

Learning is finding out what you already know. Doing is demonstrating that you know it. Teaching is reminding others that they know just as well as you. You are all learners, doers, teachers.

- Richard Bach

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Education, Inspirational Teacher, Learning By Doing

I believe that the testing of the student's achievements in order to see if he meets some criterion held by the teacher, is directly contrary to the implications of therapy for significant learning.

- Carl Rogers

topic: Education, Teacher, Believe, Good Teacher, Good Teaching

Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.

- Albert Einstein

source: "The Rhythm of Life : Living Every Day with Passion and Purpose" by Matthew Kelly, (p. 80), 2004.

topic: Life, Motivational, Strength, Improve Self Esteem, Special Education

Modern cynics and skeptics... see no harm in paying those to whom they entrust the minds of their children a smaller wage than is paid to those to whom they entrust the care of their plumbing.

- John F. Kennedy

source: Vanderbilt University 90th Anniversary Convocation Address, delivered 18 May 1963, Vanderbilt University Stadium, Nashville Tennessee

topic: Sad, Teacher, Appreciation, Good Teacher, Good Teaching

The highest result of education is tolerance.

- Helen Keller

topic: Forgiveness, Education, Appreciation, Great Teacher, Patience And Tolerance

What office is there which involves more responsibility, which requires more qualifications, and which ought, therefore, to be more honorable, than that of teaching?

- Harriet Martineau

source: Harriet Martineau (1837). “Society in America”, p.178

topic: Teaching, Responsibility, Office, Inspirational Teacher, Qualifications

No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure.

- Emma Goldman

topic: Sympathy, Education, Children, Inspirational Teacher, Sympathy For A Friend

The true aim of every one who aspires to be a teacher should be, not to impart his own opinions,but to kindle minds.

- Frederick William Robertson

source: Frederick William Robertson (1866). “Lectures and Addresses on Literary and Social Topics”, p.148

topic: Teacher, Appreciation, Teaching, Aspire, Educating Others