100+ Inspiring Education Quotes For Teachers

Dedicating below collection of 100+ Inspiring Education Quotes for Teachers who inspire, guide and motivate us to reach great heights in life & makes the world a better place to live in.

1. The wonder of teaching is watching caterpillars becomes butterflies.
2. A good teacher is like a candle, it consumes itself to light the way for others.
3. Good teachers are the reason why ordinary students dream to do extraordinary things..
4. So often you find that the students you’re trying to INSPIRE are the ones that end up inspiring you.
5. Educators are the only people who lose sleep over other people’s children.
6. The future of the world is in my classroom today.
7. Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well. -Aristotle
8. Teachers can change lives with just the right mix of chalk and challenges.
9. Teacher – one who has big heart to help shape little minds.
10. Students will forget what the books taught, but they will never forget what the teacher said..
11. To the world you may be just a teacher but to your students you are a HERO.
12. By learning you will teach; by teaching you will learn.
13. The best teacher teach from the HEART, not just from the book.
14. The best teachers are those who show you where to look, but don’t tell you what to see. -Alexandra K.Trenfor
15. A good education can change anyone, but a good teacher can change everything.
16. Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world. -Nelson Mandela
17. Teacher effects eternity. She can never tell where her influence stops.
18. The influence of a good TEACHER can never be erased..!!
19. A Teacher ignites the fire that fuels a student’s thirst for knowledge, curiosity and wisdom.
20. An awesome teacher is hard to find, difficult to part with, and impossible to forget.
21. Dear Teacher, you guided me when I was lost, you supported me when I was weak, you have enlightened me all through..Thank you
22. A teacher’s purpose is not to create students in his own image, but to develop students who can create their own image.
23. The way you teach..The knowledge you share..The care you take..The love you shower..Makes you the world’s BEST teacher..!!
24. Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important. -Bill Gates
25. Teaching is the profession that teaches all the other professions..
26. The secret of education lies in respecting the student.
27. A teacher takes a Hand, opens a Mind and touches a Heart.
28. Let us remember: One book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world.
29. Who dares to TEACH must never cease to LEARN.
30. The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.
31. Education the mind without educating the heart is like no education at all. -Aristotle
32. What a teacher writes on the blackboard of LIFE can never be erased.
33. Good teachers know how to bring out the best in students. -Charles Kuralt
34. 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.
35. Teachers plant seeds of knowledge that will grow FOREVER.
36. Teachers who love teaching, teach children to love learning.
37. I think the teaching profession contributes more to the future of our society than any other single profession. -John Wooden
38. It’s the teacher that makes the difference, not the classroom.
39. Of all the hard jobs around, one of the hardest is being a good teacher.
40. Teaching is the greatest act of optimism.
41. Teach like a PINEAPPLE. Stand tall, wear a crown, be sweet on the inside.
42. Teachers, You might be the first smile your students see each morning, or their first hug they’ve had since Friday! You have the most important job of all!
43. It is the supreme art of the TEACHER to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge. -Albert Einstein
44. Your HEART is slightly BIGGER than the average human heart, that’s because you’re a TEACHER.
45. When one teaches, two learn.
46. Don’t struggle to be a better teacher than everybody else. Simply be a better teacher than you ever thought you could be.
47. As a teacher you can do anything if you have enthusiasm.
48. Let us sacrifice our today so that our children can have a better tomorrow. -Dr.APJ Abdul Kalam
49. BLACK color is sentimentally bad. But every BLACK BOARD makes the students life bright. -Dr.APJ Abdul Kalam
50. A teacher should have a creative mind. -Dr.APJ Abdul Kalam
51. 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.”
52. The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery. -Mark Van Doren
53. You can teach a student a lesson for a day; but if you can teach him to learn by creating curiosity he will continue the learning process as long as he lives. -Clay P. Bedford
54. When the Student is ready the Teacher shall appear. -Chinese Proverb
55. Teacher open the door but you must enter by yourself.
56. God send teachers to paint the lessons of life on the canvas of our heart.
57. There is nothing more inspirational that a teacher dreaming about being able to give flight to child’s dreams.
58. They inspire you, they entertain you, and you end up learning a ton even when you don’t know it. -Nicholas Sparks
59. A good teacher is a doctor who heals ignorance and an artist who inspires creativity.
60. The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind. -Kahlil Gibran
61. Today you lead the school. Tomorrow your students will lead the world.
62. When you TEACH what you love and SHARE what you know, you open eyes-minds-hearts and souls to unexplored worlds.
63. A Teacher is a compass that activates the magnets of curiosity, knowledge & wisdom in the pupils. -Ever Garrison
64. We are not just TEACHERS, we are the managers of the world’s greatest resource: children! -Robert John Meehan
65. EDUCATION is not the learning of facts, but the training of the mind to think. -Albert Einstein
66. The best part of teaching is that it matters. The hardest part of teaching is that every moment matters, every day.

67. Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.
68. If a child can’t learn the way we teach, maybe we should teach the way they learn.
69. We think too much about effective methods of teaching and not enough about effective methods of learning. -John Carolus S.J.
70. Our job is to teach the students we have. Not the ones we would like to have. Not the ones we used to have. Those we have right now. All of them. -Dr. Kevin Maxwell
71. A teacher is also a student. -David M. Mcconkie
72. If kids come to us from strong, healthy, functioning family it makes our job easier. If they do not come to us from strong, healthy, functioning families, it makes our job more important. -Barbara Colorose
73. If we teach today’s students as we taught yesterday’s, we rob them of tomorrow. -John Dewey
74. Students don’t care how much you know until they know how much you care.
75. 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
76. You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth. -Khalil Gibran
77. Never discourage anyone…who continually makes progress, no matter how slow. -Plato
78. You can’t direct the wind but you can adjust the sails.
79. The man (or woman) who can make hard things easy is the educator. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
80. You cannot teach a crab to walk straight.
81. 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 him which he finds it hard to answer.
82. Teaching kids to count is fine, but teaching them what counts is best. -Bob Talbert
83. If a man is to shed the light of the sun upon other men, he must first of all have it within himself.
84. Education is not to reform students or amuse them or to make them expert technicians. It is to unsettle their minds, widen their horizons, inflame their intellects, teach them to think straight, if possible.
85. Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition. -Jacques Barzun
86. The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires. -William A. Ward
87. Every child has a different learning style and pace. Each child is unique, not only capable of learning but also capable of succeeding. -Robert John Meehan
88. Teachers give children the roots to grow and the wings to fly.
89. Sometimes the thing your students need MOST right now, has NOTHING to do with what’s on your LESSON PLAN.
90. Children are like wet cement, whatever falls on them makes an impression. -Haim Ginott
91. Teachers live forever in the hearts and memories of their students.
92. Free the child’s potential, and you will TRANSFORM him into the world.
93. If your actions in the classroom inspire children to achieve more, question more, and dream more, you are indeed worthy of the title “TEACHER.” -Robert John Meehan
94. INSTRUCTION does much, but ENCOURAGEMENT does everything.
95. Teachers have three loves; love of learning, love of learners, and the love of bringing the first two loves together. -Scott Hayden
96. Be happy teachers, you were born to be amazing. You were born to be a teacher. Be happy in your career. Students will not only see your passion, they’ll feel your love.
97. There are two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live. -John Adams
98. EDUCATION breads confidence. CONFIDENCE breeds hope. HOPE breeds peace. -Confucius
99. When you question your decision to GO ON TEACHING, look into the eyes of a student who needs you, that’s where you’ll FIND YOUR PASSION AGAIN. Teachers make a difference, every day.
100. The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet. -Aristotle
101. The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you.
102. Education is the key to unlocking the world, a passport to freedom.
103. Teachers who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, USUALLY DO.
104. Teachers, I believe, are the most responsible and important members of society because their professional efforts affect the fate of the earth.
105. Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.
106. Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon. -E. M. Forster
107. We can teach from our experience, but we cannot teach experience. -Sasha Azevedo
108. I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework. – Lily Tomlin as Edith Ann
109. You’re not a teacher but an awakener.
110. Don’t try to fix the students, fix ourselves first. The good teacher makes the poor student good and the good student superior. -Marva Collins
111. To teach is to learn twice over. -Joseph Joubert
112. When our students fail, we, as teachers, too, have failed. -Marva Collins
113. The average teacher explains complexity; the gifted teacher reveals simplicity. -Robert Brault
114. There are three things to remember when teaching: know your stuff; know whom you are stuffing; and then stuff them elegantly. -Lola May
115. Give me a fish and I eat for a day. Teach me to fish and I eat for a lifetime. -Chinese Proverb
116. A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron. -Horace Mann
117. 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.
118. Dream big, work hard, stay humble.
119. Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. -Henry Ford
120. A man should first direct himself in the way he should go. Only then should he instruct others. -Buddha
121. The true aim of everyone who aspires to be a teacher should be, not to impart his own opinions, but to kindle minds. -F. W. Robertson
122. Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.” – Robert Frost
123. Genius without education is like silver in the mine. – Benjamin Franklin

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