40 Inspirational Quotes About Teachers to Praise a Profession
An engaging personality, a fresh teaching style, good communication skills and clear objectives, along with true knowledge of what is being taught, are some of the merits we can probably discern in people that have tried to make us learn, whether professionals or wise men who devoted their life to science, philosophy, art or society itself.
Teachers often have a special place in our hearts, which is why we have compiled this list of inspiring words said about them. When it comes to remembering how we learnt something in our lives, these famous quotes referring to teachers will certainly strike a chord.
- Teachers and nurses get the best seats in Heaven. Arnold Schwarzenegger
- One repays a teacher badly if one always remains nothing but a pupil. Friedrich Nietzsche
- The principal art of the teacher is to awaken the joy in creation and knowledge. Albert Einstein
- I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well. Alexander the Great (his teacher was the famous philosopher Aristotle)
- Those who know, do. Those that understand, teach. Aristotle
- 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 true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. Amos Bronson Alcott
- 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. Nikos Kazantzakis - When you want to teach children to think, you begin by treating them seriously when they are little, giving them responsibilities, talking to them candidly, providing privacy and solitude for them, and making them readers and thinkers of significant thoughts from the beginning. That’s if you want to teach them to think. Bertrand Russell
- Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased. Jiddu Krishnamurti
- Anyone who teaches me deserves my respect, honoring and attention. Sonia Rumzi
- 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
- To know how to suggest is the art of teaching. Henri-Frédéric Amiel
- One child, one teacher, one book, one pen can change the world. Malala Yousafzai
- A teacher who cannot explain any abstract subject to a child does not himself thoroughly understand his subject; if he does not attempt to break down his knowledge to fit the child’s mind, he does not understand teaching. Fulton J. Sheen
- When the student is ready the teacher will appear. When the student is truly ready… The teacher will Disappear. Lao Tzu
- A true teacher would never tell you what to do. But he would give you the knowledge with which you could decide what would be best for you to do. Christopher Pike
- In order to be a teacher you’ve got to be a student first. Gary L. Francione
- A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops. Henry Adams
- Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important. Bill Gates
- …teaching is, after all, a form of show business. Steve Martin
- If you are a student, try to be a teacher; if you are a teacher, try to be a student! Mehmet Murat ildan
- A teacher must also be prepared to learn if he is going to teach. Anthony T. Hincks
- The best teachers teach from the heart not from the book. Unknown
- The greatest skill the best athletes in the world possess is their ability to listen. Emma Chase
- I never teach my pupils, I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn. Albert Einstein
- There is no use in lecturing unless a class is listening. And they will only listen if you are saying something they think they can understand and seems relevant. If you pace up and down you can tell from their moving head whether they are following you. Herbert A. Simon
- The teacher must adopt the role of facilitator not content provider. Lev S. Vygotsky
- I found, as every teacher does, that there is nothing like teaching to help one learn. Dalai Lama XIV
- In teaching the young you have to satisfy the schoolchild in yourself and enter the region where all meanings start. That is where, in any case, the philosopher has perpetually to start. William Barrett
- (Kids) don’t remember what you try to teach them. They remember what you are. Jim Henson
- The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires. William Arthur Ward
- The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without a teacher. Elbert Hubbard
- Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality. Dalai Lama XIV
- A teacher who loves learning earns the right and the ability to help others learn. Ruth Beechick
- The job of an educator is to teach students to see vitality in themselves. Joseph Campbell
- When you wish to instruct, be brief; that men’s [children’s] minds take in quickly what you say, learn its lesson, and retain it faithfully. Every word that is unnecessary only pours over the side of a brimming mind. Marcus Tullius Cicero
- In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something else. Lee Iacocca
- 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
- We learned about gratitude and humility, that so many people had a hand in our success, from the teachers who inspired us to the janitors who kept our school clean…and we were taught to value everyone’s contribution and treat everyone with respect. Michelle Obama
- Our great mistake in education is, as it seems to me, the worship of book-learning–the confusion of instruction and education. We strain the memory instead of cultivating the mind. The children in our elementary schools are wearied by the mechanical act of writing, and the interminable intricacies of spelling; they are oppressed by columns of dates, by lists of kings and places, which convey no definite idea to their minds, and have no near relation to their daily wants and occupations; while in our public schools the same unfortunate results are produced by the weary monotony of Latin and Greek grammar. We ought to follow exactly the opposite course with children–to give them a wholesome variety of mental food, and endeavor to cultivate their tastes, rather than to fill their minds with dry facts. The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn. What does it matter if the pupil know a little more or a little less? A boy who leaves school knowing much, but hating his lessons, will soon have forgotten almost all he ever learned; while another who had acquired a thirst for knowledge, even if he had learned little, would soon teach himself more than the first ever knew. John Lubbock
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