Teaching QuotesTeaching quotes are meant to positively inspire those who have the honor of teaching others. We are all teachers. We teach by example, and hopefully inspire others by our positive outlook on life. Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach. Aristotle Love yourself and be awake today, tomorrow, always. First establish yourself in the way, then teach others, and so defeat sorrow. To straighten the crooked you must first do the harder thing--straighten yourself. You are the only master. Who else? Subdue yourself and discover your master. Buddha Each second we live is a new and unique moment of the universe, a moment that will never be again. And what do we teach out children? We teach them that two and two make four, and that Paris is the capital of France. When will we also teach them what they are? We should say to each of them: Do you know what you are? You are a marvel. You are unique. In all the years that have passed, there has never been another child like you. Your legs, your arms, your clever fingers, the way you move. You may become a Shakespeare, a Michelangelo, a Beethoven. You have the capacity for anything. Yes, you are a marvel. And when you grow up, can you then harm another who is, like you, a marvel? You must work, we must all work, to make the world worthy of its children. Pablo Casals Teach them how to fly. Dan Chesbro If we learn to open our hearts, anyone, including the people who drive us crazy, can be our teacher. Pema Chodron I like to learn, but I don’t like to be taught. Winston Churchill The essence of teaching is to make learning contagious, to have one idea spark another. Marva Collins I do not teach children. I give them joy. Isadora Duncan To waken interest and kindle enthusiasm is the sure way to teach easily and successfully. Tryon Edwards It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge. Albert Einstein Experience is the worst teacher. It always gives the test first and the instruction afterward. Benjamin Franklin I am not a teacher, but an awakener. Robert Frost Instruction does much, but encouragement does everything. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The art of mothering is to teach the art of living to children. Elain Heffner To teach is to learn twice. Joseph Joubert One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched out 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 To fully nurture the creative potential of others requires modeling the behaviors, attitudes and actions consistant with a creative learner. Development of one's creative expression is therefore first. Susan Keller-Mathers Everyone and everything around you is your teacher. Ken Keyes, Jr. We need to teach the next generation of children from day one that they are responsible for their lives. Mankind’s greatest gift, also its greatest curse, is that we have free choice. We can make our choices built from love or from fear. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Live your life in the manner that you would like your kids to live theirs. Michael Levine Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But, you learn, by God, you learn. C.S. Lewis We teachers can only help the work going on, as servants wait upon a master. Maria Montessori Surprises are the joy of living. Surprises directly touch the soul. Good surprises energize and bad surprises teach. Alev Oguz To teach is to learn. Japanese Proverb Creativity is for us all - it's about you, me, and about everyday life. It is about the abundant originality we manifest, and our flexible improvisations, whether teaching a class, raising our kids, fixing the car, helping a client, landscaping the yard, planning a benefit, or trying to figure out why we're on earth. Ruth Richards Teaching for creativity aims to encourage self-confidence, independence of mind, and the capacity to think for oneself. Sir Ken Robinson 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 You are always your own best guru, your own best teacher, the answers are always inside you. Sathya Sai Baba I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think. Socrates 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 be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit. John Steinbeck I can teach anybody how to get what they want out of life. The problem is that I can't find anybody who can tell me what they want. Mark Twain The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires. William Arthur Ward Teaching is the greatest act of optimism. Colleen Wilcox Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught. Oscar Wilde Come forth into the light of things. Let nature be your teacher. William Wordsworth Education is not filling a bucket but lighting a fire. William Butler Yeats Return from Teaching Quotes, Teacher Quotations and Sayings about Teachers to Quotes Listed by Subject
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