Teaching is both an art and a science!
A career in teaching allows you to positively impact society by influencing the mindsets of the younger generation and enabling them to integrate into the community successfully as young adults.
As an inspirational teacher, you are also a role model to your learners as you help them gain valuable skills and develop their character.
We’ve compiled this collection of 50 inspirational quotes for teachers to express our support and gratitude for the amazing individuals who are dedicated to nurturing our children every day.
1-“Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity and is the torch which illuminates the world..”
― Louis Pasteur
2-“Whoever teaches without emancipating stultifies.”
― Jacques Ranciere
3-“No one learns as much about a subject as one who is forced to teach it.”
Peter Drucker
4-“One child, One teacher, One book, One pen can change the world.”
Malala Yousafzai
5-“I’m more interested in arousing enthusiasm in kids than in teaching the facts. The facts may change, but that enthusiasm for exploring the world will remain with them the rest of their lives.”
― Seymour Simon
6-If he (teacher) is indeed wise he does not bid you enter the house of his wisdom, but rather leads you to the threshold of your own mind.
Khalil Gibran
7-“Teaching kids to count is fine, but teaching them what counts is best.”
Bob Talbert
8-“If we teach today’s students as we taught yesterday’s, we rob them of tomorrow.”
― John Dewey
9-“It is not until you change your identity to match your life blueprint that you will understand why everything in the past never worked.”
― Shannon L. Alder
10-“The best teachers are those who pass on their zeal and enthusiasm as a legacy to their students.”
Anonymous
11-“The best teachers are those who pass on their zeal and enthusiasm as a legacy to their students.”
Anonymous
12-“You teach me,I forget. You show me,I remember. You involve me, I understand.”
Galileo
13-“You cannot teach a CHILD anything, you can only help him find it within himself.”
Galileo
14-“In learning, you will teach, and in teaching, you will learn.”
Phil Collins
15-“The best teacher lodges an intent not in the mind but in the heart. .”
― Anne Michaels
16-“Teaching is only demonstrating that it is possible. Learning is making it possible for yourself.”
― Paulo Coelho
17-“Experience teaches only the teachable.”
Aldous Huxley
18-“The future of the world is in your classroom today.”
Ivan Welton Fitzwater
19-“Give the pupils something to do, not something to learn; and the doing is of such a nature as to demand thinking;
learning naturally results.”
― John Dewey
20-“If a man is to shed the light of the sun upon other men, he must first of all have it within himself.”
Anonymous
21-“You are not a Teacher, but an Awakener.”
Robert Frost
22-Education in music is most sovereign because more than anything else, rhythm and harmony find their way to the innermost soul and take strongest hold upon it.
― Plato
23-“The biggest challenge facing the great teachers and communicators of history is not to teach history itself, nor even the lessons of history, but why history matters. How to ignite the first spark of the will o’the wisp
― Stephen Fry
24-“I’ve come to a 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.
Haim Ginott
25-“Teaching is the only profession that creates all other professions.”
Anonymous
26-“Those who don’t know must learn from those who do.”
― Plato
27-“I’m not a teacher, but I can definitely raise my voice to sound like”
Anonymous
28-“A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.”
Mark Van Doren
29-“But the purpose of a story is to teach and to please at once, and what it teaches is how to recognize the snares of the world.”
― Umberto Eco
30-“The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without a teacher.”
Elbert Hubbard
31-“Teaching should be such that what is offered is perceived as a valuable gift and not as a hard duty.”
Albert Einstein
32-“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
33-The teacher who walks in the shadow of the temple, among his STUDENTS, gives not of his wisdom but rather of his faith and his lovingness.
-Khalil Gibran
34-“The task of the modern Teacher is not to cut down jungles but to irrigate deserts.”
C.S. Lewis
35-“Teach them the quiet words of kindness, to live beyond themselves. Urge them toward excellence, drive them toward gentleness, pull them deep into yourself, pull them upward toward manhood, but softly like an angel arranging clouds. Let your spirit move through them softly.”
― Pat Conroy
36-“As a teacher, You possess a tremendous power to make a child’s life miserable or joyous. You can be a tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration.”
Haim Ginott
37-“Teachers can change lives with just the right mix of chalk and challenges.”
-Joyce Meyer
38-“Seek opportunities to show you care. The smallest gestures often make the biggest difference.”
― John Wooden
39-“A teacher’s car is their second home and also serves as their storage unit.”
Anonymous
40-The best teachers are those who show you where to look but don’t tell you what to see.
Alexandra K. Trenfor
41-“What we instill in our children will be the foundation upon which they build their future.”
― Steve Maraboli
42-“Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.”
Plato, The Republic
43-“Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.”
John Dewey
44-“When you study great teachers… you will learn much more from their caring and hard work than from their style.”
― William Glasser
45-“True teachers are those who use themselves as bridges over which they invite their students to cross; then, having facilitated their crossing, joyfully collapse, encouraging them to create their
own.”
Anonymous
46-“The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.”
William Arthur Ward
47-“You can’t really teach a kid anything: you can only show him the way and motivate him to learn it himself.”
― Dave Cullen
48-“I never teach my pupils, I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.”
Albert Einstein
49-“To teach is to touch a life forever.”
Anonymous
50-“Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality.”
― Dalai Lama XIV
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