School Teachers Quotes:

In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something else.

- Lee Iacocca

topic: Inspirational, Thank You, Education, Math Education, Math Teacher

Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.

- B. F. Skinner

source: New Scientist 21 May 1964

topic: Graduation, Education, Teacher, Math Education, Inspirational Graduation

The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.

- William Arthur Ward

source: William Arthur Ward (1968). “Thoughts of a Christian Optimist: The Words of William Arthur Ward”

topic: Motivational, Leadership, Basketball, Joy Of Learning, Inspirational Education

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

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

A good teacher can inspire hope, ignite the imagination, and instill a love of learning.

- Brad Henry

topic: Teacher, Imagination, Inspire, Good Teacher, Love Of Learning

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

The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without his teacher.

- Elbert Hubbard

topic: Inspirational, Education, Teacher, Children And Education, Children Education

He who opens a school door, closes a prison.

- Victor Hugo

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

I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

- Maya Angelou

source: FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Mar 15, 2014

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Positive, Way In Life, Make Me Feel Better

The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize.

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

topic: Leadership, Education, Teacher, Liberal Education, Teacher Student

Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one's self-esteem. That is why young children, before they are aware of their own self-importance, learn so easily.

- Thomas Szasz

source: Thomas Stephen Szasz (2004). “Words to the Wise: A Medical-Philosophical Dictionary”, p.40, Transaction Publishers

topic: Positive, Education, Children, Student Learning, First Day Of School

Education would be much more effective if its purpose was to ensure that by the time they leave school every boy and girl should know how much they do not know and be imbued with a lifelong desire to know it.

- William Haley

topic: Girl, School, Learning, Intelligence And Education, Leaving School

Education makes a people easy to lead but difficult to drive easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.

- Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux

source: Attributed; no source found

topic: Education, People, Impossible, Teacher Student, Student Learning

If you think your teacher is tough, wait till you get a boss.

- Bill Gates

topic: Wealth And Success, Boss Day, School Teachers, Happy Boss Day, Happy Teachers Day

The teacher is one who makes two ideas grow where only one grew before.

- Elbert Hubbard

topic: Education, Teacher, Ideas, Retired Teacher, Retiring Teachers

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.

- Henry Ford

topic: Inspirational, Life, Birthday, Staying Young, Stay In School

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Inspirational, Positive, Leadership, Incomplete Knowledge, Fine Arts

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.

- William Butler Yeats

source: "Gov. Brown Uses State of the State Speech to Push Education Reforms" by Adolfo Guzman-Lopez, www.scpr.org. January 24, 2013.

topic: Inspirational, Graduation, Education, Learning To Read, Joy Of Learning

One good teacher in a lifetime may sometimes change a delinquent into a solid citizen.

- Philip Wylie

topic: Teacher, Appreciation, Citizens, Delinquents, Great Teacher

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

The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.

- Mark Van Doren

topic: Art, Teaching, Learning, Inspirational Educational, Modern Education

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

Teachers can change lives with just the right mix of chalk and challenges.

- Joyce Meyer

topic: Education, Teacher, Life Changing, Chalk, Teacher Appreciation

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

- Nelson Mandela

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

If you can dream it, you can achieve it.

- Zig Ziglar

topic: Positive, Dream, Achieve, Managing Change, Great Minds

The teacher is the one who gets the most out of the lessons, and that the true teacher is a learner.

- Elbert Hubbard

source: "Little Journeys To The Homes Of Great Teachers". Volume XXII,

topic: Teacher, Retirement, Teaching, School Teachers, True Teacher

Quite frankly, teachers are the only profession that teach our children.

- Dan Quayle

topic: Funny, Education, Teacher, Funny Bush, Teachers And Teaching

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

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

- Joseph Addison

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

Smartness runs in my family. When I went to school I was so smart my teacher was in my class for five years.

- Gracie Allen

topic: Funny, Family, Senior, Funny Family, Retired Teacher

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

- Aristotle

topic: Life, Teacher, Teaching, Good Teacher, Good Teaching

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

Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.

- Gilbert K. Chesterton

topic: Inspirational, Inspiring, Graduation, Inspirational Learning, Inspiring Education

A good teacher, like a good entertainer first must hold his audience's attention, then he can teach his lesson.

- John Henrik Clarke

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

Don't be afraid of the space between your dreams and reality. If you can dream it, you can make it so.

- Belva Davis

source: Belva Davis, Vicki Haddock (2011). “Never in My Wildest Dreams: A Black Woman's Life in Journalism”, p.215, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

topic: Inspirational, Inspiring, Dream, Best Success, Managing Change

If you can dream it, you can do it. Always remember that this whole thing was started with a dream and a mouse.

- Walt Disney

topic: Inspirational, Mother, Dream, Best Success, Managing Change

Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.

- Will Durant

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

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

- Gail Godwin

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

In America the schools have become too permissive, the kids now are controlling the schools, the tail is wagging the dog. We've got to make a change there and get it back to where the teachers have control of the classrooms.

- Chuck Norris

topic: Inspirational, Dog, Teacher, School Teachers, Schools And Teachers

If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.

- Derek Bok

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

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

My mum is a school teacher and my dad is an electrician.

- Jai Courtney

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Teacher, Dad, School, Electrician, School Teachers

We have very strong intuitions about all kinds of things — our own ability, how the economy works, how we should pay school teachers. But unless we start testing those intuitions, we’re not going to do better.

- Dan Ariely

source: "Our buggy moral code". The TED Interview, www.ted.com. February, 2009.

topic: Teacher, Strong, Motivation, School Teachers

Your chemistry high school teacher lied to you when they told you that there was such a thing as a vacuum, that you could take space and move every particle out of it.

- Adam Riess

topic: Teacher, Moving, School, School Teachers, High School Teachers

If anyone is getting industrious trying to enturbulate [sic] or stop Scientology or its activities, I can make Captain Bligh look like a Sunday-school teacher. There is probably no limit on what I would do to safeguard Man's only road to freedom against persons who ... seek to stop Scientology or hurt Scientologists.

- L. Ron Hubbard

topic: Teacher, Hurt, School, Sunday School, Sunday School Teacher

Bail out the bankers and bankrupt the school teachers - we will still teachI will never follow the lead of those who exclude the kids who need education the most so that my precious scores will rise. I will never line up with those whose idea of reform is the subtle segregation of the poor and desperate. I want no part of the American caste system.

- John Kuhn

topic: Teacher, School, Kids, Caste System, School Teachers

Public school teachers are the new priesthood while traditional religion is ridiculed and maligned.

- Ann Coulter

topic: Teacher, School, Priesthood, School Teachers