Inspirational Teacher Quotes
What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.
George Bernard Shaw
We’re trying to give the young people something that can help them, and we don’t know exactly what it ought to be.
Wendell Berry
Do not confine your children to your own learning, for they were born in another time.
Chinese Proverb
Students don’t care how much you know until they know how much you care.
Anonymous
The dream begins, most of the time, with a teacher who believes in you, who tugs and pushes and leads you on to the next plateau, sometimes poking you with a sharp stick called truth.
Dan Rather
Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
Gail Goldwin
The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.
Mark Van Doren
Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.
Jacques Barzun
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 Colorose
Teaching is the greatest act of optimism.
Colleen Wilcox
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
William Butler Yeats
I’m not sayin’ I’m gonna change the world, but I guarantee that I will spark the brain that will.
Tupac Shakur
Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.
John Dewey
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
William Ward
Inspirational Quotes for Teachers Appreciation
I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. It might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.
John Steinbeck
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
Einstein
We learn geology the morning after the earthquake.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life.
Plato
There is no failure. Only feedback.
Robert Allen
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
A good teacher is like a candle – it consumes itself to light the way for others.
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
Death is not the greatest loss. The greatest loss is what dies inside while still alive. Never surrender.
Tupac Shakur
The more that you read, the more things you will know, the more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.
Dr. Seuss
I am not a teacher, but an awakener.
Robert Frost
It takes a big heart to help shape little minds.
Unknown
Teaching kids to count is fine, but teaching them what counts is best.
Bob Talbert
You cannot teach a crab to walk straight.
Aristophenes
If a child can’t learn the way we teach, maybe we should teach the way they learn.
Ignacio ‘Nacho’ Estrada
You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.
Read this Sanskrit Shloka Collection on Teachers:
गुरु महिमा वंदना श्लोक | Sanskrit Slokas on Guru Teacher with Hindi Meaning
Khalil Gibran
One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.
Carl Jung
Teaching is the one profession that creates all other professions.
Unknown
In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something less.
Lee Iacocca
I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
Socrates
Remember that failure is an event, not a person.
Zig Ziglar
It may be that when we no longer know which way to go that we have come to our real journey. The mind that is not baffled is not employed. The impeded stream is the one that sings.
Wendell Berry
Learning is not a spectator sport.
Blocher
The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it
Samuel Johnson
Never discourage anyone…who continually makes progress, no matter how slow.
Plato
The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.
Henri Bergson
I never teach my pupils. I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.
Einstein
Education breeds confidence. Confidence breeds hope. Hope breeds peace.
Confucius
There is a great difference between knowing and understanding: you can know a lot about something and not really understand it.
Charles F. Kettering
I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.
Lily Tomlin
What the teacher is, is more important than what he teaches.
Karl Meninger
My Best Teacher Quotes
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
Thomas Edison
Thought flows in terms of stories–stories about events, stories about people, and stories about intentions and achievements. The best teachers are the best story tellers. We learn in the form of stories.
Frank Martin
You can’t direct the wind but you can adjust the sails.
Anonymous
The best teachers teach from the heart, not from the book.
Unknown
Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.
M. Forster
If we teach today’s students as we taught yesterday’s, we rob them of tomorrow.
John Dewey
The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence.
Amos Bronson Alcott
The teachers who get burned out are not the ones who are constantly learning, which can be exhilarating, but those who feel they must stay in control and ahead of the students at all times.
Frank Martin
Bonus: If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up people together to collect wood and don’t assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.
Antoine de Saint-Exupér
