Quotes

Quotes For Teachers: Be Inspired!


"Teaching kids to count is fine, but teaching them what counts is best. " ~ Bob Talbert

"Example isn't another way to teach, it is the only way to teach." ~Albert Einstein

"A master can tell you what he expects of you. A teacher, though, awakens your own expectation." ~Chinese Proverb

"The greatest sign of success for a teacher ... is to be able to say, 'The children are now working as if I did not exist'. " ~Maria Montessori

'At every step a child should be allowed to meet the real experiences of life; the thorns should never be plucked from his roses.' ~Ellen Kay

'Education is the ability to meet life's situations.' ~Dr.J.G. Hibben

'A teacher affects eternity; no one can tell where the influence stops.' ~Henry Adams

'Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.' ~Gail Godwin || 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 whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows. ~Sydney J. Harris

Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school. ~Albert Einstein

It'll be a great day when education gets all the money it wants and the Air Force has to hold a bake sale to buy bombers. ~Author unknown, quoted in //You Said a Mouthful//, Ronald D. Fuchs, ed.

An educational system isn't worth a great deal if it teaches young people how to make a living but doesn't teach them how to make a life. ~Author Unknown

If you think education is expensive, try ignorance. ~Attributed to both Andy McIntyre and Derek Bok

It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense. ~Robert G. Ingersoll

Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading. ~G.M. Trevelyan

To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks. ~A.A. Milne

Nations have recently been led to borrow billions for war; no nation has ever borrowed largely for education. Probably, no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both. ~Abraham Flexner

The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives. ~Robert Maynard Hutchins

He who opens a school door, closes a prison. ~Victor Hugo

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 

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. ~Aristotle

I have never let my schooling interfere with my education. ~Mark Twain

Education is not filling a pail but the lighting of a fire. ~William Butler Yeats

Too often we give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve. ~Roger Lewin