Inspirational Teacher Quotes

• I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.

  Lily Tomlin

  Education, Appreciation, Teacher

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

  Henry Adams

  Inspirational, Leadership, Education

  The Education of Henry Adams ch. 20 (1907)

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• Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.

  Jacques Barzun

  Inspirational, Education, Appreciation

  1955 In Newsweek, 5 Dec.

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• Teaching should be such that what is offered is perceived as a valuable gift and not as a hard duty.

  Albert Einstein

  Teacher, Educational, Teaching

  Albert Einstein (2010). “Ideas And Opinions”, p.67, Broadway Books

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• I am firm in my belief that a teacher lives on and on through his students. Good teaching is forever and the and the teacher is immortal.

  Jesse Stuart

  Education, Teacher, Teaching

  Jesse Stuart (1958). “Thread that Runs So True”, p.7, Simon and Schuster

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

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Dance, Education

  Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.52, St. Martin's Press

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• I've come to the frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element in the classroom. It's my personal approach that creates the climate. It's my daily mood that makes the weather. As a teacher, I possess tremendous power to make a student's life miserable or joyous. I can be a tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration. I can humiliate or humor, hurt or heal. In all situations it is my response that decides whether a crisis will be escalated or de-escalated and a student humanized or de-humanized.

  Haim Ginott

  Inspirational, Life, Education

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• The role of the teacher is to create the conditions for invention rather than provide ready-made knowledge.

  Seymour Papert

  Education, Teacher, School

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• If I remained silent and you remained silent, then who will teach the ignorant?

  Ibn Taymiyyah

  Teaching, Islamic, Ignorance

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• If kids come to us from strong, healthy functioning families, it makes our job easier. If they do not come to us from strong, healthy, functioning families, it makes our job more important.

  Barbara Coloroso

  Inspirational, Family, Teacher

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• Education is the best provision for old age.

  Aristotle

  Graduation, Education, Teaching

  Aristotle (2015). “The Aristotle Collection [50 Books]”, Catholic Way Publishing

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• ...a student attains 'higher order thinking' when he no longer believes in right or wrong". "A large part of what we call good teaching is a teacher´s ability to obtain affective objectives by challenging the student's fixed beliefs. ...a large part of what we call teaching is that the teacher should be able to use education to reorganize a child's thoughts, attitudes, and feelings.

  Benjamin Bloom

  Education, Teacher, Children

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• I have created nothing really beautiful, really lasting, but if I can inspire one of these youngsters to develop the talent I know they possess, then my monument will be in their work.

  Augusta Savage

  Inspirational, Beautiful, Art

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• Education, you know, means broadening, advancing; and if you limit a teacher to only one side of anything, the whole country will eventually have only one thought, be one individual. I believe in teaching every aspect of every problem or theory.

  John T. Scopes

  Education, Country, Teacher

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• What can educators do to foster real intelligence?.. .We can attempt to teach the things that one might imagine the earth would teach us: silence, humility, holiness, connectedness, courtesy, beauty, celebration, giving, restoration, obligation, and wildness.

  David W. Orr

  Beauty, Teacher, Real

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• I'm a teacher still, but with a much larger classroom.

  Rick Riordan

  Teacher, Attitude, Teaching

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• Teacher who make Physics boring are criminals

  Walter Lewin

  Teacher, Learning, Bored

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

  Josef Albers

  Inspirational, Education, Appreciation

  Josef Albers (2006). “Interaction of Color”, p.70, Yale University Press

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• Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Do not train children to learning by force and harshness, but direct them to it by what amuses their minds.

  Plato

  Education, Children, Teaching

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• Teach the children so it will not be necessary to teach the adults.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspirational, Teacher, Children

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• Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.

  John Dewey

  Life, Inspiring, Education

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• You teach best what you most need to learn.

  Richard Bach

  Education, Wisdom, Teaching

  Richard Bach (2012). “Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah”, p.48, Delta

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  I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Inspirational, Funny, Motivational

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• The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.

  Robert M. Hutchins

  Life, Education, Teacher

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