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Happy American Education Week! A special thanks to the National Education Association for supporting this event and for all their hard word the other 51 weeks in the year.
To celebrate, we have selected some of our favorite quotes about education and teaching. (To see more check out 112 inspirational quotes for teachers) Below are 5 that we hope might inspire others.
- “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
- “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
- “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
- “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
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