Monday, August 27, 2018

50 Teaching Quotes all Educators Need to Hear

Our latest collection of teaching quotes on Everyday Power Blog.

Just like parents, teachers are one of the most important people in our lives. They use their experience to impart knowledge on us and help us grow.

A teacher is the most significant factor in determining the quality of education a child receives. A great teacher can change your life. They can guide you and teach you the qualities that make one successful.

A great teacher is someone who has the patience and understanding to teach you everything, any number of times. They have clear goals and objectives and set high standards for their students. Besides, effective teachers engage their students and get them to look at issues from various perspectives.

A teacher is always within you. Anyone can be a teacher to those around them. There’s nothing more satisfying than influencing and changing lives by sharing your knowledge and experience.

Here are some inspirational teaching quotes to encourage you to be a great teacher by sharing and setting an example for others to follow.

 

Teaching quotes all educators need to hear

 

1.) “I never teach my pupils, I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.” ― Albert Einstein

 

2.) “Those who know, do. Those that understand, teach.” ― Aristotle

 

3.) A good teacher can inspire hope, ignite the imagination, and instill a love of learning. – Brad Henry

 

4.) It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge. – Albert Einstein

 

5.) Any good teacher knows how important it is to connect with students and understand our culture. – Adora Svitak

6.) Teachers can change lives with just the right mix of chalk and challenges. – Joyce Meyer

 

7.) The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts. – C. S. Lewis

 

8.) “In learning you will teach, and in teaching you will learn.” ― Phil Collins

 

9.) “The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without a teacher.” ― Elbert Hubbard

 

10.) A good teacher must know the rules; a good pupil, the exceptions. – Martin H. Fischer

 

11.) So what does a good teacher do? Create tension – but just the right amount. – Donald Norman

Inspirational teaching quotes

 

12.) Teachers affect eternity; no one can tell where their influence stops. – Henry Brooks Adams

 

13.) The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.-William A. Ward

 

14.) If we teach today’s students as we taught yesterday’s, we rob them of tomorrow. – John Dewey

 

15.) “The job of an educator is to teach students to see vitality in themselves” ― Joseph Campbell

 

16.) “You can’t really teach a kid anything: you can only show him the way and motivate him to learn it himself.”
Dave Cullen

 

17.) Good teaching must be slow enough so that it is not confusing, and fast enough so that it is not boring.― Sidney J. Harris

 

18.) “I am not a teacher, but an awakener.”frost—Robert Frost

 

19.) “Better than a thousand days of diligent study is one day with a great teacher.”—Japanese proverb

 

20.) “The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn.”—John Lubbock

 

21.) “To teach is to learn twice over.”joubert—Joseph Joubert

 

22.) “What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.” – George Bernard Shaw

 

23.) Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process.― A. Bartlett Giamatti

 

24.) Teachers, who educate children, deserve more honor than parents, who merely gave them birth; for the latter provided mere life, while the former ensured a good life.― Aristotle

 

25.) In teaching you cannot see the fruit of a day’s work. It is invisible and remains so, maybe for twenty years.― Jacques Barzun

 

26.) “The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.” – Mark Van Doren

 

27.) “A good teacher is like a candle – it consumes itself to light the way for others.” – Mustafa Kemal Atatürk

 

28.) “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

 

29.) Teaching is the only major occupation…for which we have not developed tools that make an average person capable of competence and performance. In teaching we rely on the naturals, the ones who somehow know how to teach.― Peter Drucker

 

30.) “I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.” – Lily Tomlin

 

Teaching quotes to appreciate our educators

 

31.) “What the teacher is, is more important than what he teaches.” – Karl Menninger

 

32.) “When you study great teachers… you will learn much more from their caring and hard work than from their style.” ― William Glasser

 

33.) “Teaching is only demonstrating that it is possible. Learning is making it possible for yourself.” ― Paulo Coelho

 

34.) “The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of the mind for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.” ― Anatole France

 

35.) “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

 

36.) “Of all the hard jobs around, one of the hardest is being a good teacher” – Maggie Gallagher

 

37.) “Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theatre” – Gail Goldwin

 

38.) “I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think” – Socrates

 

39.) “Teaching is the one profession that creates all other professions” – Unknown

 

40.) “Teachers are expected to reach unattainable goals with inadequate tools. The miracle is that at times they accomplish this impossible task.”~Haim G. Ginott

 

Other inspirational teaching quotes

 

41.) “I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.”~Alexander the Great

 

42.) “Teachers have three loves: love of learning, love of learners, and the love of bringing the first two loves together.” ― Scott Hayden

 

43.) “One of the hardest things for boys to learn is that a teacher is human. One of the hardest things for a teacher to learn is not to try and tell them.” ― Alan Bennett

 

44.) “For the advice in a joke is sometimes more useful than the most serious teaching.” ― Baltasar Gracián

 

45.) “A teacher is one who helps others and influences lives forever.” – Catherine Pulsifer

 

46.) “Ask yourself: ‘Do I feel the need to laminate?’ Then teaching is for you.” ― Gordon Korman

 

47.) “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 

 

48.) “The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.” – Kahlil Gibran

 

49.) “I taught you everything you know. But I didn’t teach you everything I know.” ― Orson Scott Card

 

50.) “Teaching is a little like weaving a piece of fabric. A weaver must have certain equipment and materials in order to create the desired design and color.” – Delia Halverson

 

Which are your favorite teaching quotes?

Having quality teachers is one of the most important factors in determining your success in life. They can guide you and make things easier by teaching you strong values that make one successful.

A teacher can be anyone. It could be your parents, school teachers, professors, friends, and anyone else who’s shared, taught you and had a positive impact on your life.

Hopefully, these quotes have inspired you to be a great teacher by helping others and influencing lives positively.

Did you enjoy these teaching quotes? Which of the quotes was your favorite? Tell us in the comment section below. We would love to hear all about it.

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