Inspirational Teacher Quotes And Sayings

by allinspiration.com

“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

“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. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.”
– John Steinbeck

“To this end the greatest asset of a school is the personality of the teacher.”
– John Strachan

“Good teaching is more a giving of right questions than a giving of right answers.”
– Josef Albers

“To teach is to learn twice over.”
– Joseph Joubert

“The most effective teacher will always be biased, for the chief force in teaching is confidence and enthusiasm.”
– Joyce Cary

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

“The task of the excellent teacher is to stimulate ‘apparently ordinary’ people to unusual effort. The tough problem is not in identifying winners: it is in making winners out of ordinary people.”
– K. Patricia Cross

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

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

“Grammar speaks; dialectics teach us truth; rhetoric gives colouring to our speech; music sings; arithmetic numbers; geometry weighs and measures; astronomy teaches us to know the stars.”
– Latin Maxim

“By learning you will teach; by teaching you will understand.”
– Latin Proverb

“The best teachers become the best teachers by being their own best students.”
– Laurie Gray

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

“It is not what is poured into a student that counts but what is planted”
– Linda Conway

“There are three things to remember when teaching: know your stuff; know whom you are stuffing; and then stuff them elegantly.”
– Lola May

“Nearly everyone I met, worked with, or read about was my teacher, one way or another.”
– Loretta Young

“A good teacher is a master of simplification and an enemy of simplism.”
– Louis A. Berman

“What nobler employment, or more valuable to the state, than that of the man who instructs the rising generation.”
– Marcus Tullius Cicero

“If you have knowledge, let others light their candles at it.”
– Margaret Fuller

“That is the difference between good teachers and great teachers: good teachers make the best of a pupil’s means; great teachers foresee a pupil’s ends.”
– Maria Callas

“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

“We discovered that education is not something which the teacher does, but that it is a natural process which develops spontaneously in the human being.”
– Maria Montessori

“The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.”
– Mark van Doren

“Don’t try to fix the students, fix ourselves first. The good teacher makes the poor student good and the good student superior.”
– Marva Collins

“You can pay people to teach, But you can’t pay them to care.”
– Marva Collins

“Once children learn how to learn, nothing is going to narrow their mind. The essence of teaching is to make learning contagious, to have one idea spark another.”
– Marva Collins

“There are two types of teachers in the world: there are those who play school and teachers that teach school.”
– Matthew Dicks

“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.”
– Michael Gove

“The thing I loved the most – and still love the most about teaching – is that you can connect with an individual or a group, and see that individual or group exceed their limits.”
– Mike Krzyzewski

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