Inspirational Teacher Quotes

Inspirational Teacher Quote of the day

The greatest sign of success for a teacher...is to be able to say, "The children are now working as if I did not exist."

A mind is like a parachute. It doesn't work if it is not open.

Learning is never done without errors and defeat.

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.

Stay committed to your decisions, but stay flexible in your approach.

If kids come to us from strong, healthy functioning families, it makes our job easier. If they do not come to us from strong, healthy, functioning families, it makes our job more important.

It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.

I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.

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

When I was a freshman in high school, my drama teacher, an incredible, inspirational genius, the guy who got me into acting, he encouraged me to get the lead in a musical. They didn't have any guys.

Millions saw the apple fall but Newton was the one who asked why.

When you love people and have the desire to make a profound, positive impact upon the world, then will you have accomplished the meaning to live.

Let us pick up our books and our pens. They are our most powerful weapons. One child, one teacher, one book and one pen can change the world.

I believe you are your work. Don't trade the stuff of your life, time, for nothing more than dollars. That's a rotten bargain.

My experience is that the teachers we need most are the people we're living with right now.

I feel that the greatest reward for doing is the opportunity to do more.

Housework is a breeze. Cooking is a pleasant diversion. Putting up a retaining wall is a lark. But teaching is like climbing a mountain.

The first task of a leader is to keep hope alive.

Creativity is especially expressed in the ability to make connections, to make associations, to turn things around and express them in a new way.

Teach the children so it will not be necessary to teach the adults.

When the student is ready the teacher will appear.

Every truth has four corners: as a teacher I give you one corner, and it is for you to find the other three.

Embrace struggle... It is your greatest teacher.

I know what I can know, and am not troubled about what I cannot know.

We can teach from our experience, but we cannot teach experience.

If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed; if in terms of ten years, plant trees; if in terms of 100 years, teach the people.

To me the sole hope of human salvation lies in teaching.

The greatest dreams are always unrealistic.

Successful people ask questions. They seek new teachers. They're always learning.

There's a lot of talk these days about giving children self-esteem. It's not something you can give; it's something they have to build.

Teachers believe they have a gift for giving; it drives them with the same irrepressible drive that drives others to create a work of art or a market or a building.

The average teacher explains complexity; the gifted teacher reveals simplicity.

Compulsory education... It is a painful, continual, and difficult work; to be done by kindness, by watching, by warning, by precept, and by praise, — but above all — by example.

The basic idea behind teaching is to teach people what they need to know.

Like all good teachers, the world repeats her lesson. Over and over ...with wordless variety... She spells the name of Love.

Success is a poor teacher. We learn the most about ourselves when we fail, so don't be afraid of failing. Failing is part of the process of success. You cannot have success without failure.

We teachers can only help the work going on, as servants wait upon a master.

I was greatly influenced by one of my teachers. She had a zeal not so much for perfection as for steady betterment-she demanded not excellence so much as integrity.

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

Desire is a teacher: When we immerse ourselves in it without guilt, shame, or clinging, it can show us something special about our own minds that allows us to embrace life fully.

Our world is a college, events are teachers, happiness is the graduating point, character is the diploma God gives man.

Wisdom cannot be imparted. Wisdom that a wise man attempts to impart always sounds like foolishness to someone else.

There is only one way under high heaven to get anybody to do anything. Did you ever stop to think of that? Yes, just one way. And that is by making the other person want to do it.

You must master a new way to think, before you can master a new way to be.

You cannot transmit wisdom and insight to another person. The seed is already there. A good teacher touches the seed, allowing it to wake up, to sprout, and to grow.

Kids' hearts are malleable, but once they gel it's hard to get them back the way they were.

You learn more quickly under the guidance of experienced teachers. You waste a lot of time going down blind alleys if you have no one to lead you.

"It would seem that you have no useful skill or talent whatsoever" he said. "Have you thought of going into teaching?"

Praise is a powerful people-builder. Catch individuals doing something right.

You can't learn less.