Inspirational Quotes for Teachers

Education costs money, but then so does ignorance.

Sir Claus Moser

Give me a fish and I eat for a day. Teach me to fish and I eat for a lifetime.

Chinese Proverb

Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

Malcolm Forbes

Good teachers are those who know how little they know.

Bad teachers are those who think they know more than they don't know.

R. Verdi

We think too much about effective methods of teaching and not enough about effective methods of learning.

John Carolus

Awaken people's curiosity. It is enough to open minds,

do not overload them. Put there just a spark.

Anatole France

A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.

Henry Brooks Adams

A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.

Thomas Carruthers

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

Socrates

If the child is not learning the way you are teaching,

then you must teach in the way the child learns

Rita Dunn

A teacher who is attempting to teach, without inspiring

the pupil with a desire to learn, is hammering on a cold iron.

Horace Mann (1796-1859)

Education...is a painful, continual and difficult work to be done in kindness, by watching, by warning,... by praise, but above all -- by example.

John Ruskin

Education should turn out the pupil with something

he knows well and something he can do well.

Alfred North Whitehead

Good teaching is more a giving of right questions than a giving of right answers.

Josef Albers

I may have said the same thing before... but my explanation,

I am sure, will always be different.

Oscar Wilde

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy

in creative expression and knowledge.

Albert Einstein

Learning is finding out what you already know. Doing is demonstrating that you know it. Teaching is reminding others that they know it just as well as you. You are all learners, doers, teachers.

Richard Bach

Men learn while they teach.

Lucius A. Seneca

No matter how good teaching may be, each student must take the responsibility for his own education.

John Carolus S. J.

People's behavior makes sense if you think

about it in terms of their goals, needs, and motives.

Thomas Mann

Spoonfeeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon

E. M. Forster

Teachers should guide without dictating, and participate without dominating.

C.B. Neblette

Teach your children by what you are, not just by what you say

Jane Revell & Susan Norman

The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle

to those who want to learn.

Cicero

The basic idea behind teaching is to teach people what they need to know.

Carl Rogers

The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes,

and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton

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

Joseph Campbell

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

Plutarch

There are no difficult students - just students who don't want to do it your way

Jane Revell & Susan Norman

To define is to destroy, to suggest is to create.

Stephane Mallarme

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

George Bernard Shaw

To teach is to learn twice.

Joseph Joubert

"Try to present at least three options. One is no choice at all.

Two creates a dilemma.  With three you begin to have real choice and flexibility

Jane Revell & Susan Norman

You cannot teach a man anything;

you can only help him find it within himself.

Galielo Galilei

You can't direct the wind but you can adjust the sails.

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