Inspirational Teacher Quotes

The single most important thing in a child's performance is the quality of the teacher. Making sure a child spends the maximum amount of time with inspirational teachers is the most important thing.

We should not teach children the sciences; but give them a taste for them.

He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.

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.

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

No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure.

Everyone who remembers his own education remembers teachers, not methods and techniques. The teacher is the heart of the educational system.

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.

Most of us end up with no more than five or six people who remember us. Teachers have thousands of people who remember them for the rest of their lives.

The good teacher makes the poor student good and the good student superior.

The average teacher explains complexity; the gifted teacher reveals simplicity.

The best teachers are the best storytellers.

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.

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.

Be an opener of doors for such as come after thee.

What office is there which involves more responsibility, which requires more qualifications, and which ought, therefore, to be more honorable, than that of teaching?

Modern cynics and skeptics... see no harm in paying those to whom they entrust the minds of their children a smaller wage than is paid to those to whom they entrust the care of their plumbing.

In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something else.

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."

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

Education makes a people easy to lead but difficult to drive easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.

The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.

What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the human soul.

I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

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

To me the sole hope of human salvation lies in teaching.

A good teacher is like a candle - it consumes itself to light the way for others.

Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.

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

Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people can be engaged in.

He who opens a school door, closes a prison.

The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life.

Let us think of education as the means of developing our greatest abilities, because in each of us there is a private hope and dream which, fulfilled, can be translated into benefit for everyone and greater strength of the nation.

The true aim of every one who aspires to be a teacher should be, not to impart his own opinions,but to kindle minds.

Warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.

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

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.

The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.

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

What the teacher is, is more important than what he teaches.

The job of an educator is to teach students to see vitality in themselves

I never teach my pupils, I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.

Who dares to teach must never cease to learn.

The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.

If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement, and mystery of the world we live in.

Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.

Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambition.

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.