36 Quotations about Teachers and Teaching

36 Quotations about Teachers and Teaching 

Quotations about Teachers

1. A teacher affects eternity:

he can never tell where his influence stops.

Henry Adams

2. What nobler employment, or more valuable to the state, than that of the man who instructs the rising generation.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

 

3. The important thing is not so much

that every child should be taught, 

as that every child should be given the wish to learn.

John Lubbock

4. Those who educate children well are more to be honored than parents, for these only gave life, 

those the art of living well.

Aristotle

5. Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself.

Chinese Proverb

6. What office is there which involves more responsibility, which requires more qualifications, and which ought, therefore, to be more honorable than teaching?

Harriet Martineau

7. By learning you will teach;

by teaching you will understand.

Latin Proverb

8. Education is the mother of leadership.

Wendell L. Willkie

9. Seldom was any knowledge given to keep, but to impart; the grace of this rich jewel is lost in concealment.

Bishop Hall

10. If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.

Tryon Edwards

11. We cannot hold a torch to light another's path without brightening our own.

Ben Sweetland

12. Grammar speaks; dialectics teach us truth; rhetoric gives colouring to our speech; music sings; arithmetic numbers; geometry weighs and measures; astronomy teaches us to know the stars.

Latin Maxim

13. We learn by teaching.

James Howell

14. Natural ability is by far the best, but many men have succeeded in winning high renown by skill that is the fruit of teaching.

Pindar 

15. It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken

joy in creative expression and knowledge.

Albert Einstein

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

Galileo Galilei

17. The most effective teacher will always be biased, for the chief force in teaching is confidence and enthusiasm.

Joyce Cary

18. It is a luxury to learn; but the luxury of learning is not to be compared with the luxury of teaching.

Roswell D. Hitchcock

19. Education is the guardian genius of democracy.

It is the only dictator that free men recognize, 

and the only ruler that free men require.

Mirabeau Buonaparte Lamar

20. Whatever you want to teach, be brief. 

Horace

21. To me, education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul. 

Muriel Spark

22. Nine-tenths of education is encouragement.

Anatole France

23. The true aim of every one who aspires to be a teacher should be, not to impart his own opinions, but to kindle minds.

F. W. Robertson

24. He that teaches us anything which we knew not 

before is undoubtedly to be reverenced as a master.

Samuel Johnson

25. To teach is the center of to learn.

Japanses Saying

26. I hear and I forget. I see and I remember.

I do and I understand. 

Chinese Proverb 

From Teaching Quotations at Parrot's Meow

27. Be careful to leave your sons well

instructed rather than rich, 

for the hopes of the instructed are better 

than the wealth of the ignorant.

Epictetus

28. I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.

Alexander of Macedon

29. To know how to suggest is the great art of teaching. To attain it we must be able to guess what will interest: we must learn to read the childish soul as we might a piece of music. Then, by simply changing the key, we keep up the attraction anil vary the song. 

Henri Frederic Amiel

30. Teaching is not a lost art, 

but the regard for it is a lost tradition.

Jacques Barzun

31. Education is the transmission of civilization.

Will Durant

32. To teach is to learn twice over.

Joseph Joubert

33. A schoolmaster should have an atmosphere of awe, and walk wonderingly, as if he was amazed at being himself.

Newton D. Baker

34. A child miseducated is a child lost.

John F. Kennedy

35. A master can tell you what he expects of you. 

A teacher, though, awakens your own expectations.

Patricia Neal

36. And one silly quote just for fun....

Never try to teach a pig to sing....it wastes

your time and annoys the pig.

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