Teacher And Student Quotes:

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Inspirational, Dance, Education, Learning To Read, Math Education

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

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

Whoso neglects learning in his youth, loses the past and is dead for the future.

- Euripides

source: Euripides (1931). “Four plays of Euripides: Alcestis, Medea, Hippolytus, & Iphigeneia among the Taurians”, Stanford University Press

topic: Inspirational, Life, Education, Knowledge And Learning, Knowledge Learning

Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.

- Edward Everett

source: "The Common School Journal and Educational Reformer" edited by William B. Fowle, 1852.

topic: Education, Freedom, War, Student Learning, First Day Of School

The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.

- Plutarch

topic: Inspirational, Leadership, Education, Math Education, Inspirational Learning

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

The greatest sign of success for a teacher...is to be able to say, "The children are now working as if I did not exist."

- Maria Montessori

source: "The Absorbent Mind" by Maria Montessori, Ch. 27, (p. 283), 1949.

topic: Inspirational, Life, Success, Inspirational Educational, Inspirational Student

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

- Gail Godwin

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

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

He who opens a school door, closes a prison.

- Victor Hugo

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

Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.

- Will Durant

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

If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn't need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around.

- Jim Rohn

topic: Motivational, Education, Teacher, Inspirational Education, Inspirational Student

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

- Confucius

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

I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship.

- Louisa May Alcott

source: J. M. Barrie, Charles Dickens, Johanna Spyri, Louisa May Alcott, L. Frank Baum (2015). “Greatest Christmas Novels in One Volume: Life and Adventures of Santa Claus, Heidi, The Romance of a Christmas Card, The Little City of Hope, The Wonderful Life, Little Women, Anne of Green Gables, Little Lord Fauntleroy, Peter Pan…”, p.1082, e-artnow

topic: Inspirational, Confidence, Wisdom, Storms Of Life, Tall Ships

We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself.

- Lloyd Alexander

source: Lloyd Alexander (2014). “The Book of Three: The Chronicles of Prydain”, p.13, Usborne Publishing Ltd

topic: Strength, Education, Wisdom, Learning By Doing, Self Education

You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.

- Dale Carnegie

topic: Inspirational, Inspiring, Education, Inspirational Educational, Spiritual Education

The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.

- B. B. King

source: "The Charlotte Observer", p. 2D, October 5, 1997.

topic: Love, Inspirational, Life, Learning To Read, Inspirational Education

If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.

- Derek Bok

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

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

I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.

- Lily Tomlin

topic: Education, Appreciation, Teacher, Inspirational Teacher, Knowledge And 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

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

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

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

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

Let us think of education as the means of developing our greatest abilities, because in each of us there is a private hope and dream which, fulfilled, can be translated into benefit for everyone and greater strength of the nation.

- John F. Kennedy

topic: Dream, Mean, Learning, Inspirational Education, Public Education

The secret in education lies in respecting the student.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

topic: Education, Lying, Learning, Students And Education, What Is Education

The job of an educator is to teach students to see vitality in themselves

- Joseph Campbell

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

The greatest sign of success for a teacher... is to be able to say, 'The children are now working as if I did not exist.'

- Maria Montessori

topic: Inspirational, Life, Success, Inspirational Student, Inspiring Education

No one can take it away from you.

- B. B. King

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

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

Don't try to fix the students, fix ourselves first. The good teacher makes the poor student good and the good student superior. When our students fail, we, as teachers, too, have failed.

- Marva Collins

topic: Teacher, Trying, Firsts, Inspirational Teacher, Teacher Student

The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself.

- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

topic: Inspirational, Education, Teacher, Students And Education, Wonderful Teacher

Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Friendship, Inspiring Educational, Leadership Development

Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people can be engaged in.

- Abraham Lincoln

source: "Lincoln's Inaugurals, Addresses and Letters".

topic: Education, Teacher, Teaching, Public Education, Inspiring Education

Good teaching is more a giving of right questions than a giving of right answers.

- Josef Albers

source: Josef Albers (2006). “Interaction of Color”, p.70, Yale University Press

topic: Inspirational, Teaching, Giving, Right Answers, Inspirational Education

To me the sole hope of human salvation lies in teaching.

- George Bernard Shaw

topic: Inspirational, Lying, Teaching, Teacher Student, Good Teacher

Who dares to teach must never cease to learn.

- John Cotton Dana

source: John Cotton Dana's remarks on a quotation suitable for inscription on a new building at Newark State College, Union, New Jersey (1912) as quoted in "The New York Times Book Review" (p. 55.), March 5, 1967.

topic: Inspirational, Dare, Teach, Math Education, Inspirational Education

If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement, and mystery of the world we live in.

- Rachel Carson

source: Rachel Carson (2011). “The Sense of Wonder”, p.20, Open Road Media

topic: Life, Motivational, Family, Joy Of Learning, Kid At Heart

Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.

- Abigail Adams

topic: Education, Learning, School, Inspirational Education, Inspirational Educational

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

Every truth has four corners: as a teacher I give you one corner, and it is for you to find the other three.

- Confucius

topic: Teacher, Learning, Giving, Inspirational Educational, Inspiring Education

Learning is never done without errors and defeat.

- Vladimir Lenin

topic: Inspirational, Errors, Done, Learning By Doing, Teacher Student

True teachers are those who use themselves as bridges over which they invite their students to cross; then, having facilitated their crossing, joyfully collapse, encouraging them to create their own.

- Nikos Kazantzakis

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

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

Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves.

- Ernest Dimnet

source: Ernest Dimnet (1954). “The Art of Thinking”, p.36, Prabhat Prakashan

topic: Inspirational, Education, Children, Inspirational Education, Inspirational Educational