Educational Quotes -Teacher quotes

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Educational Quotes -Teacher quotes

A teacher affects eternity:
he can never tell where his influence stops.
Henry Adams
What nobler employment, or more valuable to the state, than that of the man who instructs the rising generation.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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
Those who educate children well are more to be honored than parents, for these only gave life,
those the art of living well.
Aristotle
What office is there which involves more responsibility, which requires more qualifications, and which ought, therefore, to be more honorable than teaching?
Harriet Martineau
By learning you will teach;
by teaching you will understand.
Latin Proverb
Education is the mother of leadership.
Wendell L. Willkie
Seldom was any knowledge given to keep, but to impart; the grace of this rich jewel is lost in concealment.
Bishop Hall
If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
Tryon Edwards
We cannot hold a torch to light another’s path without brightening our own.
Ben Sweetland
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
To know how to suggest is the great art of teaching.
Henri Frederic Amiel
We learn by teaching.
James Howell
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
It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken
joy in creative expression and knowledge.
Albert Einstein
The most effective teacher will always be biased,
for the chief force in teaching is confidence and enthusiasm.
Joyce Cary
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
Whatever you want to teach, be brief.
Horace
To me, education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil’s soul.
Muriel Spark
Nine-tenths of education is encouragement.
Anatole France
The true aim of every one who aspires to be a teacher should be, not to impart his own opinions,
but to kindle minds.
F. W. Robertson
He that teaches us anything which we knew not
before is undoubtedly to be reverenced as a master.
Samuel Johnson
I hear and I forget. I see and I remember.
I do and I understand.
Chinese Proverb
From Teaching Quotations at Parrot’s Meow
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
I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.
Alexander of Macedon
To know how to suggest is the great art of teaching. To attain it we must be able to guess what will interest: we must learn to read the childish soul as we might a piece of music. Then, by simply changing the key, we keep up the attraction anil vary the song.
Henri Frederic Amiel
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
To teach is to learn twice over.
Joseph Joubert
A schoolmaster should have an atmosphere of awe,
and walk wonderingly, as if he was amazed at being himself.
Newton D. Baker
One good teacher in a lifetime may sometimes
change a delinquent into a solid citizen.
Philip Wylie
A child miseducated is a child lost.
John F. Kennedy
A master can tell you what he expects of you.
A teacher, though, awakens your own expectations.
Patricia Neal
And one silly quote just for fun….
Never try to teach a pig to sing….it wastes
your time and annoys the pig.
Anonymous