Teaching Learning Quotes:

Philosophy is the history of philosophy.

- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

topic: Philosophy, Teaching, Teaching 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 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

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

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

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

- Albert Einstein

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

If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.

- Derek Bok

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

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

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

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 real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.

- Marcel Proust

topic: Inspirational, Life, Positive, Discovering Yourself, Journey And Destination

Teaching should be such that what is offered is perceived as a valuable gift and not as a hard duty.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Teacher, Educational, Teaching, Inspirational Teacher, Knowledge And Learning

The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.

- Mark Van Doren

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

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

- Plutarch

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

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.

- Pablo Picasso

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

topic: Inspirational, Leadership, Music, Happy Children, Fine Arts

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

A master can tell you what he expects of you. A teacher, though, awakens your own expectations.

- Patricia Neal

source: Patricia Neal, Richard DeNeut (1988). “As I am: an autobiography”, Simon & Schuster

topic: Teacher, Teaching, Expectations, Inspiring Educational, Great Teacher

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

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

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

Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.

- Jim Rohn

topic: Success, Education, Money, Makin Money, Good Money

No one can take it away from you.

- B. B. King

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

The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.

- Alvin Toffler

source: "Alvin Toffler, author of Future Shock, dies aged 87". www.theguardian.com. June 29, 2016.

topic: Inspirational, Change, Positive, Futurist, Learning To Read

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

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 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

You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room.

- Dr. Seuss

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Teaching Learning, Sitting Quietly

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

A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.

- George Santayana

topic: Education, Teacher, Children, Unschooling, 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

We now accept the fact that learning is a lifelong process of keeping abreast of change. And the most pressing task is to teach people how to learn.

- Peter Drucker

topic: Change, Teacher, Educational, Inspirational Learning, Change Management

If you don't know where you are currently standing, you're dead.

- Samuel Beckett

topic: Where You Are, Standing, Management Motivation, Managing Time, Solo Travel

The most important part of teaching is to teach what it is to know.

- Simone Weil

source: Simone Weil (2015). “First and Last Notebooks: Supernatural Knowledge”, p.14, Wipf and Stock Publishers

topic: Education, Teacher, Teaching, Educating Others, Teaching Learning

If you don't know where you're going any road will do

- Lewis Carroll

topic: Baseball, Travel, Goals Dreams, Humpty Dumpty, Management Motivation

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

Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.

- Moshe Arens

topic: Mind, Life Is, Young, Staying Young, Knowledge And Learning

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

Be an opener of doors for such as come after thee.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

topic: Teacher, Teaching, Doors, Inspirational Teacher, Teaching Learning

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 excitement of learning separates youth from old age. As long as you're learning you're not old.

- Rosalyn Sussman Yalow

topic: Teaching, Math, Nursing, Staying Young, Teaching And Learning

If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself. If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution. All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience.

- Mao Zedong

source: Mao Zedong (2017). “Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (The Little Red Book) & Other Works”, p.108, Lulu.com

topic: Change, Military, Learning, Pears, Knowledge And Learning

The more I learn, the more I realize I don't know.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Learning, Realizing, Teaching Learning

A man should first direct himself in the way he should go. Only then should he instruct others.

- Gautama Buddha

topic: Teacher, Buddhist, Teaching, Teaching Others, Teachers And Teaching

Teachers need to integrate technology seamlessly into the curriculum instead of viewing it as an add-on, an afterthought, or an event.

- Heidi Hayes Jacobs

topic: Teacher, Technology, Events, Online Learning, Educational Technology

Knowledge is recognizing what you know and what you don't.

- Confucius

topic: Education, Homeschooling, Certain Knowledge, Knowledge And Learning, Knowledge Education

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

The average teacher explains complexity; the gifted teacher reveals simplicity.

- Robert Breault

topic: Teacher, Average, Simplicity, Inspirational Teacher, English Teacher