82 Inspirational Teacher Quotes For World Teachers Day

82 Inspirational Teacher Quotes For World Teachers Day

Every teacher love feeling the thrill of the inspiration coming from teaching. The daily streess of teacher, leadership lifestyle makes it very difficult to keep that inspiraton keep going, hence here are 82 Inspirational Teacher Quotes For World Teachers Day

Teacher Quotes For World Teachers Day That Will Keep You Inspired

Teacher Quotes for Inspiration
Teacher Quotes for Inspiration

Teachers are people who start things they never see finished, and for which they never get thanks until it is too late. – Max Forman

The most important function of education at any level is to develop the personality of the individual and the significance of his life to himself and to others. This is the basic architecture of a life; the rest is ornamentation and decoration of the structure. – Grayson Kirk

“If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up people together to collect wood and don’t assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.” (Antoine de Saint-Exupér)

“A teacher who loves learning earns the right and the ability to help others learn.”  – Ruth Beechick

“In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something less.” (Lee Iacocca)

No one has yet fully realized the wealth of sympathy, kindness, and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure. – Emma Goldman

What greater joy can a teacher feel than to witness a child’s success? – Michelle L. Graham

A pro is someone who can do great work when he doesn’t feel like it. – Alastair Cook

In an effective classroom, students should not only know what they are doing, they should also know why and how. – Harry Wong

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

“If you are planning for a year, sow rice; if you are planning for a decade, plant trees; if you are planning for a lifetime, educate people.” (Chinese Proverb)

“Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.” (E. M. Forster)

Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose. Bill Gates Quotes

“You can’t direct the wind but you can adjust the sails.” (Anonymous)

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

The test of a good teacher is not how many questions he can ask his pupils that they will answer readily, but how many questions he inspires them to ask which he finds it hard to answer. – Alice Wellington Rollins

Let us remember: One book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world. Malala Yousafzai

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

No matter what accomplishments you achieve, somebody helped you. – Althea Gibson Teacher Quotes

Education is much more than a matter of imparting the knowledge and skills by which narrow goals are achieved. It is also about opening the child’s eyes to the needs and rights of others. – Dalai Lama

Teacher Quotes For Inspiration

“One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.” (Carl Jung)

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

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

The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery. – Mark Van Doren

The greatest use of a life is to spend it for something that will outlast it. – William James

“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. It might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.” (John Steinbeck)

Education is the key to success in life, and teachers make a lasting impact in the lives of their students. Solomon Ortiz

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

Education…is a painful, continual, and difficult work to be done in kindness, by watching, by warning…by praise, but above all, by example. – John Ruskin

“If we teach today’s students as we taught yesterday’s, we rob them of tomorrow.” (John Dewey)

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

Thirty-one chances. Thirty-one futures, our futures. It’s an almost psychotic feeling, believing that part of their lives belongs to me. Everything they become, I also become. And everything about me, they helped to create. – Esme Raji Codell

Education’s purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one. – Malcolm Forbes – Teacher Quotes

“Thought flows in terms of stories–stories about events, stories about people, and stories about intentions and achievements. The best teachers are the best story tellers. We learn in the form of stories.” (Frank Martin)

Teaching is the greatest act of optimism. – Colleen Wilcox

Teacher Quotes For Students

One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is a vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child. – Carl Jung

“I’m not sayin’ I’m gonna change the world, but I guarantee that I will spark the brain that will.” (Tupac Shakur)

The future of the world is in my classroom today, a future with the potential for good or bad… Several future presidents are learning from me today; so are the great writers of the next decades, and so are all the so-called ordinary people who will make the decisions in a democracy. -Ivan Welton Fitzwater

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

“The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it” (Samuel Johnson)

It must be remembered that the purpose of education is not to fill the minds of students with facts…it is to teach them to think, if that is possible, and always to think for themselves. – Robert Hutchins

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

“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)

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

Inspirational Teacher sayings For World Teachers Day

“The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.” (Henri Bergson)

“Death is not the greatest loss. The greatest loss is what dies inside while still alive. Never surrender.” (Tupac Shakur)

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

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

Teaching is the essential profession, the one that makes all professions possible. – David Haselkorn

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

“What the teacher is, is more important than what he teaches.” (Karl Meninger)

The need for imagination, as a sense of truth, and as a feeling of responsibility — these are the three forces which are the very nerve of education. – Rudolf Steiner

What greater or better gift can we offer the republic than to teach and instruct our youth? – Cicero

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

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

When the untapped potential of a student meets the liberating art of a teacher, a miracle unfolds. – Mary Hatwood Futrell

“There is no failure.  Only feedback.”  (Robert Allen)

Teachers, I believe, are the most responsible and important members of society because their professional efforts affect the fate of the earth. – Helen Caldicott

“The real heroes are the librarians and teachers who at no small risk to themselves refuse to lie down and play dead for censors.”  – Bruce Coville

“Because teachers, no matter how kind, no matter how friendly, are sadistic and evil to the core.”  – Heather Brewer

The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards; curiosity itself can be vivid and wholesome only in proportion as the mind is contented and happy. – Anatole France

“We learn geology the morning after the earthquake.” (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

“Remember that failure is an event, not a person.” (Zig Ziglar)

Benevolence alone will not make a teacher, nor will learning alone do it. The gift of teaching is a peculiar talent, and implies a need and a craving in the teacher himself. – John Jay Chapman

One of the beauties of teaching is that there is no limit to one’s growth as a teacher, just as there is no knowing beforehand how much your students can learn. – Herbert Kohl

At the desk where I sit, I have learned one great truth. The answer for all our national problems — the answer for all the problems of the world — comes to a single word. That word is education. – Lyndon B. Johnson

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 the perpetual end and office of all things. Teaching, instruction is the main design that shines through the sky and earth. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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 the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit. – John Steinbeck

Teaching is truth mediated by personality. – Phyllis Brooks

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

“The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence.” (Amos Bronson Alcott)

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

“There is a great difference between knowing and understanding: you can know a lot about something and not really understand it.” (Charles F. Kettering)

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

The most important part of teaching is to teach what it is to know. – Simone Weil

A teacher affects eternity; he [or she] can never tell where his influence stops. – Henry B. Adams

We can, whenever and wherever we choose, successfully teach all children whose schooling is of interest to us. We already know more than we need to know in order to do that. Whether or not we do it must finally depend on how we feel about the fact we haven’t so far. – Ron Edmonds

I entered the classroom with the conviction that it was crucial for me and every other student to be an active participant, not a passive consumer…education that connects the will to know with the will to become. – Bell Hooks – Teacher Quotes

Among the many purposes of schooling, four stand out to us as having special moral value: to love and care, to serve, to empower and, of course, to learn. – Andy Hargreaves and Michael Fullan Teacher Quotes

“The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.” (William Ward)

The best education is not given to students; it is drawn out of them. – Gerald Belcher

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