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- Top 10 Twitter Accounts by State
Thanks to all the teachers. We have rounded up a few quotes just for you! We hope you enjoy!
- “A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.” Henry Brooks Adams
- “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” Nelson Mandela
- “The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life.” Plato
- “The man who can make hard things easy is the educator.” Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “Education is not the answer to the question. Education is the means to the answer to all questions.” William Allin
- “I am learning all the time. The tombstone will be my diploma.” Ertha Kitt
- “A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.” Thomas Carruthers
- “He who opens a school door, closes a prison.” Victor Hugo
- “In teaching you cannot see the fruit of a days work. It is invisible and remains so, maybe for 20 years.” Jacques Barzun
- “A teacher is a compass that activates the magnets of curiosity, knowledge, and wisdom in the pupils.” Ever Garrison
- “Education costs money, but then so does ignorance.” Sir Claus Moser
- “When the student is ready, the master appears.” Buddhist Proverb
- “The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.” William Arthur Ward
- “Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.” William James
- “The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.” Mark Van Doren
- “The best teachers teach from the heart, not from the book.” Unknown
- “Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.” Chinese Proverb
- “What a teacher is, is more important than what he teaches.” Karl Menninger
- “A teacher’s purpose is not to create students in his own image, but to develop students who can create their own image.” Unknown
- “You learn something every day if you pay attention.” Ray LeBlond
- “Children are one-third of our population and all of our future.” Select Panel for the Promotion of Child Health
- “He who dares to teach must never cease to learn.” John Cotton Dana
- “Teacher appreciation makes the world of education go around.” Helen Peters
- “Teaching is the greatest act of optimism.” Colleen Wilcox
- “A master can tell you what he expects of you. A teacher…awakens your own expectations.” Patricia Neal
- “To teach is to learn twice.” Joseph Joubert
- “The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself.” Ed Bulwer-Lytton
- “Teaching should be full of ideas instead of stuffed with facts.” Author Unknown
- “It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.” Albert Einstein
- “All the world is a laboratory for the inquiring mind.” Martin H. Fischer
- “I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teachers for living well.” Alexander the Great
- “We need to understand that every time an elementary teacher captures the imagination of a child through the arts or music of language this nation gets a little stronger.” Richard Riley, former Secretary of Education
- “A good teacher is like a candle – it consumes itself to light the the way for others.” Author Unknown
- “The job of a teacher is to teach students to see the vitality in themselves.” Joseph Campbell
- “One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of a child.” Carl Jung
- “Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward.” Vernon Law
- “Anyone can steer the ship when the sea is calm.” Publilius Syrus
- “An education is being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don’t.” Anatole France
- “It’s not what is poured into a student, but what is planted.” Linda Conway
- “The person who doesn’t read good books has no advantage over the person who can’t read.” Mark Twain
- “The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts but learning how to make facts live.” Oliver Wendell Holmes
- “Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.” Jim Rohn
- “Getting things done is not always what is most important. There is value in allowing others to learn.” R.D. Clyde
- “Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.” Henry Peter Broughan
- “Man’s mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.” Oliver Wendell Holmes
- “The most useful piece of learning for the uses of life is to unlearn what is untrue.” Antisthenes
- “Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.” Alexander Pope
- “I don’t think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.” Abraham Lincoln
- “The ink of the scholar is more sacred than the blood of the martyr.” Mohammed
- “There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.” Willa Cather
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