These 60 inspirational quotes could lift your spirits and renew your passion for teaching! We at Teaching Expertise know that sometimes life can be tough and a little positive encouragement can make all the difference! We hope that our favorite quotes will provide you with some inspiration!
1. The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards. - Anatole France
2. By learning you will teach; by teaching you will learn. - Latin Proverb
3. Teaching is not a lost art; but regard for teaching is a lost tradition. - Jacques Barzun
4. Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one. - Malcolm Forbes
5. Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance. - Will Durant
6. The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery. - Mark Van Doren
7. Everything is a learning process: any time you fall over, it's just teaching you to stand up the next time. - Joel Edgerton
8. Teaching is the royal road to learning. - Jessamyn West
9. Teaching is not a job. It's a lifestyle. It permeates your whole life. - Jill Biden
10. Effective teaching may be the hardest job there is. - William Glasser
11. In teaching you cannot see the fruit of a day's work. It is invisible and remains so, maybe for twenty years. - Jacques Barzun
12. I think the teaching profession contributes more to our society than any other single profession. - John Wooden
13. You can never be overdressed or overeducated. - Oscar Wilde
14. It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. - Aristotle
15. Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world. - Nelson Mandela
16. Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation. - Walter Cronkite
17. Children must be taught how to think, not what to think. - Margaret Mead
18. Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all. - Aristotle
19. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education. - Martin Luther King, Jr.
20. Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each. - Plato
21. The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.
- C.S. Lewis
22. The best teachers impart knowledge through sleight of hand, like a magician. - Kate Betts
23. To educate a person in the mind but not in morals is to educate a menace to society. - Theodore Roosevelt
24. One child, one teacher, one book, one pen can change the world. - Malala Yousafzai
25. Read at every wait; read at all hours; read within leisure; read in times of labor; read as one goes in; read as one goest out. The task of the educated mind is simply put: read to lead. - Cicero
26. Knowledge will bring you the opportunity to make a difference. - Claire Fagin
27. Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself. - John Dewey
28. Education breeds confidence. Confidence breeds hope. Hope breeds peace. - Confucius
29. Once social change begins, it cannot be reversed. You cannot un-educate the person who has learned to read. You cannot humiliate the person who feels pride. You cannot oppress the people who are not afraid anymore. - Cesar Chavez
30. Children learn more from what you are than what you teach. - W.E.B. DuBois
31. Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon. - E.M. Forster
32. The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires. - William Arthur Ward
33. What is a teacher? I'll tell you: it isn't someone who teaches something, but someone who inspires the student to give of her best in order to discover what she already knows. - Paulo Coelho
34. 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
35. We teach best what we most need to learn. - Richard Bach
36. I am not a teacher, but an awakener. - Robert Frost
37. A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops. - Henry Adams
38. The best teacher is not the one who knows most but the one who is most capable of reducing knowledge to that simple compound of the obvious and wonderful. - H.L. Mencken
39. When you study great teachers... you will learn much more from their caring and hard work than from their style. - William Glasser
40. A teacher who loves learning earns the right and the ability to help others learn. - Ruth Beechick
41. Teachers are the one and only people who save nations. - Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
42. It is not enough for the teacher to love the child. She must first love and understand the universe. She must prepare herself, and truly work at it. - Maria Montessori
43. A true teacher would never tell you what to do. But he would give you the knowledge with which you could decide what would be best for you to do. - Christopher Pike
44. The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. - Amos Bronson Alcott
45. I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework. - Lily Tomlin
46. I'm a teacher. A teacher is someone who leads. There is no magic here. I do not walk on water. I do not part the sea. I just love children. - Marva Collins
47. What all good teachers have in common, however, is that they set high standards for their students and do not settle for anything less. - Marva Collins
48. The teacher must be an actor, an artist, passionately in love with his work. - Anton Chekhov
49. The foundation of every state is the education of its youth. - Diogenes
50. Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence. - Abigail Adams
51. The great aim of education is not knowledge but action. - Herbert Spencer
52. An investment in knowledge pays the best interest. - Benjamin Franklin
53. Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow. - Anthony J. D'Angelo
54. Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten. - B. F. Skinner
55. Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know. - Daniel J. Boorstin
56. A liberal education is at the heart of a civil society, and at the heart of a liberal education is the act of teaching. - A. Bartlett Giamatti
57. A good teacher can inspire hope, ignite the imagination, and instill a love of learning. - Brad Henry
58. A good teacher, like a good entertainer first must hold his audience's attention, then he can teach his lesson. - John Henrik Clarke
59. Good teachers know how to bring out the best in students. - Charles Kuralt
60. It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge. - Albert Einstein
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