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best inspirational quotes for teachers

60 Best Inspirational Quotes for Teachers

May 7, 2021 //  by Lauren Du Plessis

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

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2. By learning you will teach; by teaching you will learn. - Latin Proverb

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3. Teaching is not a lost art; but regard for teaching is a lost tradition. - Jacques Barzun

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4. Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one. - Malcolm Forbes

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5. Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance. - Will Durant

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6. The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery. - Mark Van Doren

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7. Everything is a learning process: any time you fall over, it's just teaching you to stand up the next time. - Joel Edgerton

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8. Teaching is the royal road to learning. - Jessamyn West

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9. Teaching is not a job. It's a lifestyle. It permeates your whole life. - Jill Biden

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10. Effective teaching may be the hardest job there is. - William Glasser

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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

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12. I think the teaching profession contributes more to our society than any other single profession. - John Wooden

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13. You can never be overdressed or overeducated. - Oscar Wilde

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14. It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. - Aristotle

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15. Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world. - Nelson Mandela

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16. Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation. - Walter Cronkite

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17. Children must be taught how to think, not what to think. - Margaret Mead

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18. Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all. - Aristotle

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19. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education. - Martin Luther King, Jr.

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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

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21. The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.
- C.S. Lewis

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22. The best teachers impart knowledge through sleight of hand, like a magician. - Kate Betts

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23. To educate a person in the mind but not in morals is to educate a menace to society. - Theodore Roosevelt

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24. One child, one teacher, one book, one pen can change the world. - Malala Yousafzai

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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

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26. Knowledge will bring you the opportunity to make a difference. - Claire Fagin

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27. Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself. - John Dewey

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28. Education breeds confidence. Confidence breeds hope. Hope breeds peace. - Confucius

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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

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30. Children learn more from what you are than what you teach. - W.E.B. DuBois

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31. Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon. - E.M. Forster

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32. The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires. - William Arthur Ward

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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

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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

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35. We teach best what we most need to learn. - Richard Bach

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36. I am not a teacher, but an awakener. - Robert Frost

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37. A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops. - Henry Adams

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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

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39. When you study great teachers... you will learn much more from their caring and hard work than from their style. - William Glasser

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40. A teacher who loves learning earns the right and the ability to help others learn. - Ruth Beechick

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41. Teachers are the one and only people who save nations. - Mustafa Kemal Atatürk

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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

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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

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44. The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. - Amos Bronson Alcott

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

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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

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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

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48. The teacher must be an actor, an artist, passionately in love with his work. - Anton Chekhov

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49. The foundation of every state is the education of its youth. - Diogenes

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

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51. The great aim of education is not knowledge but action. - Herbert Spencer

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52. An investment in knowledge pays the best interest. - Benjamin Franklin

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53. Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow. - Anthony J. D'Angelo

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54. Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten. - B. F. Skinner

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55. Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know. - Daniel J. Boorstin

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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

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

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

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59. Good teachers know how to bring out the best in students. - Charles Kuralt

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

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