Teaching Students Quotes:

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

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

- Gail Godwin

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

Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants.

- John W. Gardner

topic: Education, Flower, Teaching, Special Education, Inspirational Teacher

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

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

The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

- Malcolm Forbes

topic: Inspirational, Education, Travel, Math Education, Math Teacher

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

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

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

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

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

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

Education costs money. But then so does ignorance.

- Claus Moser, Baron Moser

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

The great end of education is, to discipline rather than to furnish the mind; to train it to the use of its own powers, rather than fill it with the accumulation of others.

- Tryon Edwards

source: " A Dictionary of Thoughts: Being a Cyclopedia of Laconic Quotations from the Best Authors of the World, Both Ancient and Modern" by Tryon Edwards, New York, Cassell publishing company, (p. 134), 1891.

topic: Education, Teacher, Learning, Daily Discipline, What Is Education

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

- George Bernard Shaw

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

We should not teach children the sciences; but give them a taste for them.

- Jean-Jacques Rousseau

topic: Education, Children, Teaching, Teaching And Education, Teaching Education

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

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

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

Education is the best provision for old age.

- Aristotle

topic: Graduation, Education, Teaching, Inspirational Educational, Inspirational Graduation

If you think you can't, you're right.

- Carol Bartz

topic: Inspirational, Positive, Smart, Thought Of The Day, Best Success

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

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

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

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

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

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

- Plutarch

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

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

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

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

- Joseph Campbell

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

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

If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.

- Derek Bok

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

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

- Confucius

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

Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.

- Will Durant

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

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

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 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

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

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

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

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

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

Learning never exhausts the mind.

- Leonardo da Vinci

topic: Inspirational, Education, Teaching, Mislead Us, Student Learning

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