Inspirational Teacher Quotes

Among life's many occupations, there stands no single pursuit nobler than that of educating our future generations. Teachers do more than teach - they are counselors, mentors, and friends. They inspire dreams.

#1

A teacher affects eternity:
he can never tell where his influence stops.
Henry Adams

#2

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

#3

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

#4

Those who educate children well are more to be honored than parents, for these only gave life,
those the art of living well.
Aristotle

#5

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

#6

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

#7

Education is the mother of leadership.
Wendell L. Willkie

#8

Seldom was any knowledge given to keep, but to impart; the grace of this rich jewel is lost in concealment.
Bishop Hall

#9

If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
Tryon Edwards

#9

We cannot hold a torch to light another's path without brightening our own.
Ben Sweetland

#10

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

#11

To know how to suggest is the great art of teaching.
Henri Frederic Amiel

#12

We learn by teaching.
James Howell

#13

Natural ability is by far the best, but many men have succeeded in winning high renown by skill that is the fruit of teaching.
Pindar

#14

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

#15

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

#16

Education is the guardian genius of democracy.
It is the only dictator that free men recognize,
and the only ruler that free men require.
Mirabeau Buonaparte Lamar

#17

To me, education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul.
Muriel Spark

#18

Nine-tenths of education is encouragement.
Anatole France

#19

He that teaches us anything which we knew not
before is undoubtedly to be reverenced as a master.
Samuel Johnson

#20

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

#21

Be careful to leave your sons well
instructed rather than rich,
for the hopes of the instructed are better
than the wealth of the ignorant.
Epictetus

#22

Teaching is not a lost art,
but the regard for it is a lost tradition.
Jacques Barzun

Education is the transmission of civilization.
Will Durant

#23

To teach is to learn twice over.
Joseph Joubert

#24

A schoolmaster should have an atmosphere of awe,
and walk wonderingly, as if he was amazed at being himself.
Newton D. Baker

#25

One good teacher in a lifetime may sometimes
change a delinquent into a solid citizen.
Philip Wylie

#26

A child mis educated is a child lost.
John F. Kennedy

#27

A master can tell you what he expects of you.
A teacher, though, awakens your own expectations.
Patricia Neal

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