Inspirational Teacher Quotes And Sayings

by allinspiration.com

“I cannot emphasize enough the importance of a good teacher.”
– Temple Grandin

“A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.”
– Thomas Carruthers

“A teacher should have maximal authority, and minimal power.”
– Thomas Szaz

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

“In large part, we are teachers precisely because we remember what it was like to be a student. Someone inspired us. Someone influenced us. Or someone hurt us. And we’ve channeled that joy (or pain) into our own unique philosophies on life and learning and we’re always looking for an opportunity to share them—with each other, our students, parents, or in our communities.”
– Tucker Elliot

“The great end of education is to discipline rather than to furnish the mind; to train it to the use of its own powers rather than to fill it with the accumulation of others.”
– Tyron Edwards

“The secret of teaching is to appear to have known all your life what you learned this afternoon.”
– Unknown

“A good teacher is like a candle – it consumes itself to light the way for others.”
– Unknown

“Teachers who inspire know that teaching is like cultivating a garden, and those who would have nothing to do with thorns must never attempt to gather flowers.”
– Unknown

“Teaching should be full of ideas instead of stuffed with facts.”
– Unknown

“The best teachers teach from the heart, not from the book.”
– Unknown

“Teaching creates all other professions.”
– Unknown

“A teacher’s purpose is not to create students in his own image, but to develop students who can create their own image.”
– Unknown

“Teachers who inspire realize there will always be rocks in the road ahead of us. They will be stumbling blocks or stepping stones; it all depends on how we use them.”
– Unknown

“What a teacher writes on the blackboard of life can never be erased.”
– Unknown

“Discover wildlife: be a teacher!”
– Unknown

“A truly special teacher is very wise, and sees tomorrow in every child’s eyes.”
– Unknown

“Teachers touch the future.”
– Unknown

“For every person who wants to teach there are approximately thirty people who don’t want to learn much.”
– W.C. Stellar

“A professor is someone who talks in someone else’s sleep.”
– W.H. Auden

“Education is the transmission of civilization.”
– Will Durant

“The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.”
– William Arthur Ward

“Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.”
– William Butler Yeats

“We can teach a lot of things, but if the teacher can’t relate by talking to a group of friendly students, he’ll never be a competent teacher.”
– William Glasser

“When you study great teachers, you will learn much more from their caring and hard work than from their style.”
– William Glasser

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