Inspiration
Teachers Day Special – 50 Favourite Inspirational Quotes For Teachers
Teaching is one of the toughest jobs, and at times it seems that you are running out of energy and inspiration. Sometimes, we all need a little motivation to remind us why we do what we do.
Teaching is one of the toughest jobs, and at times it seems that you are running out of energy and inspiration. Sometimes, we all need a little motivation to remind us why we do what we do.
We’ve compiled 50 of our favorite inspirational quotes for teachers. Some of these you might have read before, however the bulk of these quotes are both new, and capable of that extra push that you need.
“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
“Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life. Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism.”
David M. Burns
“A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.”
Henry B Adams
“Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?”
Erich Fromm
“The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.”
Gloria Steinem
“The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think — rather to improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves, than to load the memory with thoughts of other men.”
Bill Beattie
“The difference between school and life? In school, you’re taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you’re given a test that teaches you a lesson.”
Tom Bodett
“He who opens a school door, closes a prison.”
Victor Hugo
“If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.”
Andy McIntyre
“Tell me and I’ll forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and I’ll understand.”
Chinese proverb
“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
“The most beautiful things in the creating of the child are his “mistakes.” The more a child’s work is full of these individual mistakes the more wonderful it is. And the more a teacher removes them from the child’s work the duller, more desolate and impersonal it becomes.”
Franz Cizek
“I’ve learned… that the best classroom in the world is at the feet of an elderly person.”
Andy Rooney
“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
“The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.”
Sydney J. Harris
“What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the human soul.”
Joseph Addison
“The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn …and change.”
Carl Rogers
“Education would be much more effective if its purpose was to ensure that by the time they leave school every boy and girl should know how much they do not know, and be imbued with a lifelong desire to know it.”
William Haley
“If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.”
Ben Franklin
“Do not train children to learning by force and 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
“A well-educated mind will always have more questions than answers.”
Helen Keller
“It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.”
Robert G. Ingersoll
“A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.”
George Santayana
“The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you.”
B.B. King
“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
Mahatma Gandhi
“You educate a man; you educate a man. You educate a woman; you educate a generation.”
Brigham Young
“I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better.”
Maya Angelou
“Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.”
Robert Frost
“Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.”
Margaret Mead
“Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.”
Aristotle
“The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.”
C.S. Lewis
“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.
"A great teacher is someone who can learn from his students, who can learn with them, and learns for them."
Robert John Meehan
“The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.”
Malcolm S. Forbes
“The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.”
Herbert Spencer
“Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.”
Jacques Barzun
“Children are like wet cement, whatever falls on them makes an impression.”
Haim Ginott
“I am not a teacher, but an awakener.”
Robert Frost
“If we teach today’s students as we taught yesterday’s, we rob them of tomorrow.”
John Dewey
“Teaching is the one profession that creates all other professions.”
“If a child can’t learn the way we teach, maybe we should teach the way they learn.”
Ignacio ‘Nacho’ Estrada
“As a general rule, teachers teach more by what they are than by what they say.”
“Those who know, do. Those that understand, teach.”
Aristotle
“One child, one teacher, one book, one pen can change the world.”
Malala Yousafzai
“I never teach my pupils, I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.”
Albert Einstein
“Seek opportunities to show you care. The smallest gestures often make the biggest difference.”
John Wooden
“Education breeds confidence. Confidence breeds hope. Hope breeds peace.”
Confucius
“Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality.”
Dalai Lama
“I'm not a teacher: only a fellow traveler of whom you asked the way. I pointed ahead – ahead of myself as well as you.”
George Bernard Shaw
“In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something else.”
Lee Iacocca