The 47 Most Teacher Quotes - Motivation For Teachers

The 50 Most Teacher Quotes  - Motivation For Teachers

                                           

                                                             Teacher Quotes

1. What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.
-George Bernard Shaw

2. “Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theatre.
-Gail Goldwin

3.A teacher is a compass that activates the magnets of curiosity, knowledge, and wisdom in the pupils.
-Ever Garrison

4. Before any great things are accomplished, a memorable change must be made in the system of education…to raise the lower ranks of society nearer to the higher.
-John Adams

5. I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-Socrates

6. If you are planning for a year, sow rice; if you are planning for a decade, plant trees; if you are planning for a lifetime, educate people.
-Chinese Proverb

7. What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul.
-Joseph Addison

8. inspirational quotes for teachers

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

9. Teach the children so it will not be necessary to teach the adults.
-Abraham Lincoln


10. Every child deserves a champion – an adult who will never give up on them, who understands the power of connection and insists that they become the best that they can possibly be.
-Rita Pierson

11. If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn’t need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around.
-Jim Rohn

12. Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.
-Benjamin Franklin

13. The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
-William A. Ward

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

15. A mind when stretched by a new idea never regains its original dimensions.
-Anonymous

16. Education is not filling of a pail but the lighting of a fire.
-William Butler Yeats

17. The best way to predict your future is to create it.
-Abraham Lincoln

18. The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character – that is the goal of true education.
-Martin Luther King, Jr.

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

20. Teaching is more than imparting knowledge, it is inspiring change. Learning is more than absorbing facts, it is acquiring understanding.
-William Arthur Ward

21. The principal goal of education in the schools should be creating men and women who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done.
-Jean Piaget
teacher thank you quotes

22. Friendship is a horizon – which expands whenever we approach it.
-E.R. Hazlip

23. The secret in education lies in respecting the student.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

25. There is no friends as loyal as a book.
-Ernest Hemingway

26. Do you know the secret of the true scholar? In every man there is something wherein I may learn of him; and in that I am his pupil.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

27. When you learn, teach. When you get, give.
-Maya Angelou

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

29. Don’t just teach your kids to read, teach them to question what they read. Teach them to question everything!
-George Carlin

30. A child mis-educated is a child lost.
-John F. Kennedy

31. Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
-Mahatma Gandhi

32. What we learn with pleasure we never forget.
-Alfred Mercier

33. The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you.
-B.B. King

34. Better than a thousand days of diligent study is one day with a great teacher
-Japanese Proverb

35. Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.
-Albert Einstein

36. The hardest thing to teach is how to care.
-Unknown

37. Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
-Nelson Mandela
influence leadership quote

38. Laughter is timeless. Imagination has no age. And dreams are forever.
-Walt Disney

39. Each of us has a fire in our hearts for something. It’s our goal in life to find it and keep it lit.
-Mary Lou Retton

40. Plant your own garden and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.
-Veronica A. Shoffstall

41. The more that you read, the more things you will know, the more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.
-Dr. Seuss

42. You can teach a student a lesson for a day; but if you can teach him to learn by creating curiosity he will continue the learning process as long as he lives.
-Clay P. Bedford

43. Around here, we don’t look backwards for very long… We keep moving forward, opening up new doors and doing new things because we’re curious… and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.
-Walt Disney

44. Do not confine your children to your own learning, for they were born in another time.
-Chinese Proverb

45. Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn.
-Benjamin Franklin

46. Once you have learned to ask questions – relevant and appropriate and substantial questions – you have learned how to learn and no one can keep you from learning whatever you want or need to know.
-Neil Postman and Charles Weingartner

47. I’m not afraid of storms, for I’m learning to sail my ship.
-Aeschylus