Here is a list of the best 20 educational quotes for teachers to learn about. All thanks and gratitude go back to Jill Hare for her grassroots efforts to collect these amazing words.
Quote N1
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.
-Barbara Colorose
Quote N2
Teachers affect eternity; no one can tell where their influence stops.
Henry Brooks Adams
Quote N3
Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.
—Jacques Barzun
Quote N4
The man (or woman) who can make hard things easy is the educator.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
Quote N5
Students don’t care how much you know until they know how much you care.
Quote N6
Children are like wet cement, whatever falls on them makes an impression.
- Haim Ginott
Quote N7
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.
-Alice Wellington Rollins
Quote N8
Teaching kids to count is fine, but teaching them what counts is best.
-Bob Talber
Quote N9
Listen to the MUSTN’TS, child.
Listen to the DON’TS
Listen to the SHOULDN’TS
The IMPOSSIBLES, the WON’TS
Listen to the NEVER HAVES
Then listen close to me-
Anything can happen, child,
ANYTHING can be.”
Shel Silverstein
Quote N10
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
-William A. Ward
Quote N11
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
-William Butler Yeats
Quote N12
If we teach today’s students as we taught yesterday’s, we rob them of tomorrow.
John Dewey
Quote N13
Teaching is the one profession that creates all other professions.
-Unknown
Quote N14
It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.
Albert Einstein
Quote N15
A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child cannot afford to be fooled.
James Baldwin
Quote N16
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.
—Robert M. Hutchins
Quote N17
If a child can’t learn the way we teach, maybe we should teach the way they learn.
-Ignacio ‘Nacho’ Estrada
Quote N18
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit.
- Aristotle
Quote N19
As a general rule, teachers teach more by what they are than by what they say.
Unknown
Quote N20
Never do anything for a student that he he is capable of doing for himself. If you do you, you’ll make him an educational cripple…a pedagogical paraplegic.
-Howard Hendricks
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