Education Quote of the Day: 365 Quotes for Teachers

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September Jokes for Teachers

“Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.” Chinese Proverb
“The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without his teacher.” Elbert Hubbard
“Teachers who inspire realize there will always be rocks in the road ahead of us.” Unknown
“Good teachers are costly, but bad teachers cost more.” Bob Talbert
“A master can tell you what he expects of you. A teacher, though, awakens your own expectation.” Chinese Proverb
“What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.” George Bernard Shaw
“I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.” Socrates
“Teach the children so it will not be necessary to teach the adults.” Abraham Lincoln
“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
“Education breeds confidence. Confidence breeds hope. Hope breeds peace.” Confucius
“What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul.” Joseph Addison
“Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.” Benjamin Franklin (Ben Franklin Quotes)
“He who dares to teach must never cease to learn.” John Cotton Dana
“The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.” William Arthur Ward
“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’. ” Maria Montessori
“Children are 1/3rd of our population and all of our future.” Select Panel for the Promotion of Child Health 1981
“I am learning all the time. The tombstone will be my diploma.” Ertha Kitt
“To teach is to learn twice.” Joseph Joubert
“Teaching should be full of ideas instead of stuffed with facts.” Author Unknown
“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
“All the world is a laboratory for the inquiring mind.” Martin H. Fischer
“They [rocks] will be stumbling blocks or stepping stones; it all depends on how we use them.” Unknown
“Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or self-confidence.” Robert Frost
“In teaching you cannot see the fruit of a days work. It is invisible and remains so, maybe for 20 years.” Jacques Barzun
“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
“A true teacher is one who, keeping the past alive, is also able to understand the present.” Confucius
“You can teach a student a lesson for a day; but if you can teach him to learn, he will continue the learning process.” Clay P. Bedford
“A master can tell you what he expects of you. A teacher…awakens your own expectations.” Patricia Neal
“Teaching is leaving a vestige of oneself in the development of another.” Eugene P. Bertin
“The student is a bank where you can deposit your most precious treasures.” Eugene P. Bertin
“A teacher is a compass that activates the magnets of curiosity, knowledge, and wisdom in the pupils.” Ever Garrison

January Guest Blogs / Top Guest Blogs / January Jokes / Top January Pages

“Teaching should be full of ideas instead of stuffed with facts.” Author Unknown
“Every survival kit should include a sense of humor.” Author Unknown
“It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.” Albert Einstein (Top Albert Einstein Quotes)
“A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.” Thomas Carruthers
“He who opens a school door, closes a prison.” Victor Hugo
“Teaching is the greatest act of optimism.” Colleen Wilcox
“Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.” Chinese Proverb
“Good teachers are costly, but bad teachers cost more.” Bob Talbert
“I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.” Socrates
“Education breeds confidence. Confidence breeds hope. Hope breeds peace.” Confucius
“He who dares to teach must never cease to learn.” John Cotton Dana
“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’.” Maria Montessori
“Children are 1/3rd of our population and all of our future.” Select Panel for the Promotion of Child Health 1981
“The dream begins with a teacher who believes in you… who tugs and pushes and leads you to the next plateau.” Dan Rather
“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” Martin Luther King Jr. “Letter from Birmingham Jail,” 16 April 1963 (Martin Luther King Jr. Quotes)
“The time is always right to do the right thing.” Martin Luther King Jr. (Martin Luther King Jr. Quotes)

November Guest Blogs / Top Guest Blogs / November Jokes / Top November Pages

February 12th “Teach the children so it will not be necessary to teach the adults.” Abraham Lincoln
“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
March 2nd: “Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.” Dr. Seuss (Dr. Seuss Trivia / Dr. Seuss Quotes / Dr. Seuss Jokes)
“Don’t cry because it’s over. Smile because it happened.” Dr. Seuss (Dr. Seuss Trivia / Dr. Seuss Quotes / Dr. Seuss Jokes)
May 29th: “Divided, there is little we can do. Together, there is little we cannot do.” John F. Kennedy (JFK Quotes)
“The job of a teacher is to teach students to see the vitality in themselves.” Joseph Campbell
“The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.” William Arthur Ward
“Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.” Albert Einstein (Top Albert Einstein Quotes & 101 Pi Day Jokes)
Albert Einstein’s Birthday March 14th: “I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.” (Top Albert Einstein Quotes & 101 Pi Day Jokes)
“Example isn’t another way to teach, it is the only way to teach.” Albert Einstein (Top Albert Einstein Quotes)
November 30th: “I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.” Mark Twain (Top Mark Twain Quotes)
“The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without his teacher.” Elbert Hubbard
“Teachers who inspire realize there will always be rocks in the road ahead of us.” Unknown
“A master can tell you what he expects of you. A teacher, though, awakens your own expectation.” Chinese Proverb
“What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.” George Bernard Shaw
“What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul.” Joseph Addison
“Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.” Benjamin Franklin
“The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.” William Arthur Ward
“I am learning all the time. The tombstone will be my diploma.” Ertha Kitt
“To teach is to learn twice.” Joseph Joubert
“Teaching should be full of ideas instead of stuffed with facts.” Author Unknown
“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
“All the world is a laboratory for the inquiring mind.” Martin H. Fischer
“They [rocks] will be stumbling blocks or stepping stones; it all depends on how we use them.” Unknown
“Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or self-confidence.” Robert Frost
“In teaching you cannot see the fruit of a days work. It is invisible and remains so, maybe for 20 years.” Jacques Barzun
“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
“A true teacher is one who, keeping the past alive, is also able to understand the present.” Confucius
“You can teach a student a lesson for a day; but if you can teach him to learn, he will continue the learning process.” Clay P. Bedford
“A master can tell you what he expects of you. A teacher…awakens your own expectations.” Patricia Neal
“Teaching is leaving a vestige of oneself in the development of another.” Eugene P. Bertin
“The student is a bank where you can deposit your most precious treasures.” Eugene P. Bertin
“A teacher is a compass that activates the magnets of curiosity, knowledge, and wisdom in the pupils.” Ever Garrison
“We expect teachers to handle teen pregnancy, abuse, and failings of the family. Then we expect them to educate our children.” John Sculley
“The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.” Mark Van Doren
“The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn.“ John Lubbock
“A good teacher is like a candle – it consumes itself to light the the way for others.” Author Unknown
“When you study great teachers… you will learn much more from their caring and hard work than from their style.” William Glasser
“You learn something every day if you pay attention.” Ray LeBlond
“Teachers who inspire know that teaching is like cultivating a garden.” Author Unknown
“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
“If you’re going to be thinking, you may as well think big.” Donald Trump
“Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others.” Jonathan Swift
“The giving of love is an education in itself.” Eleanor Roosevelt
“Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.” Gail Godwin
“I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teachers for living well.” Alexander the Great
“You can’t stop a teacher when they want to do something. They just do it.” J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
“Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.” Jacques Barzun
“He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.” Henry Ward Beecher
“The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.” Benjamin Disraeli
“Teachers appreciate being appreciated, for teacher appreciation is their highest award.” William Prince
“Life is about using the whole box of crayons.” RuPaul
“Every survival kit should include a sense of humor.” Author Unknown
“It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.” Albert Einstein (Top Albert Einstein Quotes)
“The job of a teacher is to teach students to see the vitality in themselves.” Joseph Campbell
“If a doctor, lawyer, or dentist had 40 people in his office at one time, all of whom had different needs, and some whom didn’t want to be there and were causing trouble, and the doctor, lawyer, or dentist, without assistance, had to treat them all with professional excellence for nine months, the he might have some conception of the classroom teacher’s job.” Donald D. Quinn
“A teacher’s purpose is not to create students in his own image, but to develop students who can create their own image.” Author Unknown
“We are all special cases.” Albert Camus
“Teachers are expected to reach unattainable goals with inadequate tools. The miracle is that at times they accomplish this task.” Haim Ginott
“Personal relationships are the fertile soil from which all advancement, all success, all achievement, in real life grows.” Ben Stein
“Teacher appreciation makes the world of education go around.” Helen Peters
“Mighty things from small beginnings grown.” John Dryden
“I can live two months on a good compliment.” Mark Twain (Top Mark Twain Quotes)
“Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.” Plato
“The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.” Eric Hoffer

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“What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul.” Joseph Addison
“Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.” Benjamin Franklin
“He who dares must never cease to learn.” John Cotton Dana
“The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.” William Arthur Ward
“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’. ” Maria Montessori
“Children are 1/3rd of our population and all of our future.” Select Panel for the Promotion of Child Health 1981
“I am learning all the time. The tombstone will be my diploma.” Ertha Kitt
“To teach is to learn twice.” Joseph Joubert
“Teaching should be full of ideas instead of stuffed with facts.” Author Unknown
“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
“All the world is a laboratory for the inquiring mind.” Martin H. Fischer
“They [rocks] will be stumbling blocks or stepping stones; it all depends on how we use them.” Unknown
“Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or self-confidence.” Robert Frost
“In teaching you cannot see the fruit of a days work. It is invisible and remains so, maybe for 20 years.” Jacques Barzun
“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
“A true teacher is one who, keeping the past alive, is also able to understand the present.” Confucius
“You can teach a student a lesson for a day; but if you can teach him to learn, he will continue the learning process.” Clay P. Bedford
“A master can tell you what he expects of you. A teacher…awakens your own expectations.” Patricia Neal
“Teaching is leaving a vestige of oneself in the development of another.” Eugene P. Bertin
“The student is a bank where you can deposit your most precious treasures.” Eugene P. Bertin
“A teacher is a compass that activates the magnets of curiosity, knowledge, and wisdom in the pupils.” Ever Garrison
“The dream begins with a teacher who believes in you… who tugs and pushes and leads you to the next plateau.” Dan Rather
“We expect teachers to handle teen pregnancy, abuse, and failings of the family. Then we expect them to educate our children.” John Sculley
“The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.” Mark Van Doren
“The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn.“ John Lubbock
“A good teacher is like a candle – it consumes itself to light the the way for others.” Author Unknown
“When you study great teachers… you will learn much more from their caring and hard work than from their style.” William Glasser
“You learn something every day if you pay attention.” Ray LeBlond
“Teachers who inspire know that teaching is like cultivating a garden.” Author Unknown
“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
“If you’re going to be thinking, you may as well think big.” Donald Trump
“Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others.” Jonathan Swift
“The giving of love is an education in itself.” Eleanor Roosevelt
“Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.” Gail Godwin
“I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teachers for living well.” Alexander the Great
“You can’t stop a teacher when they want to do something. They just do it.” J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
“Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.” Jacques Barzun
“He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.” Henry Ward Beecher
“The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.” Benjamin Disraeli
“Teachers appreciate being appreciated, for teacher appreciation is their highest award.” William Prince
“Life is about using the whole box of crayons.” RuPaul
“Every survival kit should include a sense of humor.” Author Unknown
“It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.” Albert Einstein (Top Albert Einstein Quotes)
“The job of a teacher is to teach students to see the vitality in themselves.” Joseph Campbell
“If a doctor, lawyer, or dentist had 40 people in his office at one time, all of whom had different needs, and some whom didn’t want to be there and were causing trouble, and the doctor, lawyer, or dentist, without assistance, had to treat them all with professional excellence for nine months, the he might have some conception of the classroom teacher’s job.” Donald D. Quinn
“A teacher’s purpose is not to create students in his own image, but to develop students who can create their own image.” Author Unknown
“We are all special cases.” Albert Camus
“Teachers are expected to reach unattainable goals with inadequate tools. The miracle is that at times they accomplish this task.” Haim Ginott
“Personal relationships are the fertile soil from which all advancement, all success, all achievement, in real life grows.” Ben Stein
“Teacher appreciation makes the world of education go around.” Helen Peters
“Mighty things from small beginnings grown.” John Dryden
“I can live two months on a good compliment.” Mark Twain (Top Mark Twain Quotes)
“Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.” Plato
“The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.” Eric Hoffer
“My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors.” Maya Angelou
“Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained.” James A Garfield
“The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without his teacher.” Elbert Hubbard
“Teachers who inspire realize there will always be rocks in the road ahead of us.” Unknown
“Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children’s future. And we are all mortal.” John F. Kennedy (JFK Quotes)
“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
“What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul.” Joseph Addison
“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
“All the world is a laboratory for the inquiring mind.” Martin H. Fischer
“They [rocks] will be stumbling blocks or stepping stones; it all depends on how we use them.” Unknown
“Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or self-confidence.” Robert Frost
“In teaching you cannot see the fruit of a days work. It is invisible and remains so, maybe for 20 years.” Jacques Barzun
“A true teacher is one who, keeping the past alive, is also able to understand the present.” Confucius
“Teaching is leaving a vestige of oneself in the development of another.” Eugene P. Bertin
“The student is a bank where you can deposit your most precious treasures.” Eugene P. Bertin
“A teacher is a compass that activates the magnets of curiosity, knowledge, and wisdom in the pupils.” Ever Garrison
“We expect teachers to handle teen pregnancy, abuse, and failings of the family. Then we expect them to educate our children.” John Sculley
“The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn.“ John Lubbock
“A good teacher is like a candle – it consumes itself to light the the way for others.” Author Unknown
“When you study great teachers… you will learn much more from their caring and hard work than from their style.” William Glasser
“You learn something every day if you pay attention.” Ray LeBlond
“Teachers who inspire know that teaching is like cultivating a garden.” Author Unknown
“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
“If you’re going to be thinking, you may as well think big.” Donald Trump
“Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others.” Jonathan Swift
“The giving of love is an education in itself.” Eleanor Roosevelt
“Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.” Gail Godwin
“I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teachers for living well.” Alexander the Great
“You can’t stop a teacher when they want to do something. They just do it.” J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
“Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.” Jacques Barzun
“He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.” Henry Ward Beecher
“The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.” Benjamin Disraeli
“Teachers appreciate being appreciated, for teacher appreciation is their highest award.” William Prince
“Life is about using the whole box of crayons.” RuPaul
“If a doctor, lawyer, or dentist had 40 people in his office at one time, all of whom had different needs, and some whom didn’t want to be there and were causing trouble, and the doctor, lawyer, or dentist, without assistance, had to treat them all with professional excellence for nine months, the he might have some conception of the classroom teacher’s job.” Donald D. Quinn
“A teacher’s purpose is not to create students in his own image, but to develop students who can create their own image.” Author Unknown
“We are all special cases.” Albert Camus
“Teachers are expected to reach unattainable goals with inadequate tools. The miracle is that at times they accomplish this task.” Haim Ginott
“Personal relationships are the fertile soil from which all advancement, all success, all achievement, in real life grows.” Ben Stein
“Teacher appreciation makes the world of education go around.” Helen Peters
“Mighty things from small beginnings grown.” John Dryden
“I can live two months on a good compliment.” Mark Twain (Top Mark Twain Quotes)
“Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.” Plato
“The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.” Eric Hoffer

January Educator of the Day / January Jokes / January Hashtags

“A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.” Henry Brooks Adams (Top Education Quotes)
“Education, then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of man.” Horace Mann (Horace Mann Quotes)
“Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn.” Benjamin Franklin (Ben Franklin Quotes)
“The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character – that is the goal of true education.” Martin Luther King Jr. (Martin Luther King Jr. Quotes)
“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” Nelson Mandela (Nelson Mandela Quotes)
“The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.” Aristotle
“Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.” B. F. Skinner (Psychology Jokes)
“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.” Mahatma Gandhi (Gandhi Quotes)
“Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.” John Dewey
“What a teacher is, is more important than what he teaches.” Karl Menninger
“The best teachers teach from the heart, not from the book.” Unknown
“Example isn’t another way to teach, it is the only way to teach.” Albert Einstein (Albert Einstein Quotes)
“Better than a thousand days of diligent study is one day with a great teacher.” Japanese Proverb
“Everybody can be great… because anybody can serve. You don’t have to have a college degree to serve.” Martin Luther King Jr. (Martin Luther King Jr. Quotes)
“The time is always right to do the right thing.” Martin Luther King Jr. (Martin Luther King Jr. Quotes)
“The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.” Martin Luther King Jr. Strength to Love (1963) (Martin Luther King Jr. Quotes)
“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” Martin Luther King Jr. “Letter from Birmingham Jail,” 16 April 1963 (Martin Luther King Jr. Quotes)
“Think, think, think.” A.A. Milne, Winnie the Pooh (Winnie the Pooh Quotes / Winnie the Pooh Jokes)
“I am not a teacher, but an awakener.” Robert Frost
“There is no friends as loyal as a book.” Ernest Hemingway
“Education is not filling of a pail but the lighting of a fire.” William Butler Yeats
“Every student can learn, just not on the same day, or the same way.” George Evans
“Education’s purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.” Malcolm Forbes
“What we learn with pleasure we never forget.” Alfred Mercier
“He who opens a school door, closes a prison.” Victor Hugo
“The secret in education lies in respecting the student.” Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Good teachers are costly, but bad teachers cost more.” Bob Talbert
“The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you.” B.B. King

February Lessons / February Jokes / February Hashtags

“What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.” George Bernard Shaw
“Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.” William James
“Education breeds confidence. Confidence breeds hope. Hope breeds peace.” Confucius
“The more that you read, the more things you will know, the more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.” Dr. Seuss (Top 50 Dr. Seuss Quotes & Dr. Seuss Trivia)
“Teaching is the greatest act of optimism.” Colleen Wilcox
“I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.” Socrates
“He who dares to teach must never cease to learn.” John Cotton Dana
“Mama always said life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you’re gonna get.” (Top Valentine’s Day Jokes & Top 365 Quotes for Mothers / National Chocolate Day Jokes)
“Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.” Benjamin Franklin (Ben Franklin Quotes)
“Teach the children so it will not be necessary to teach the adults.” Abraham Lincoln (Top Presidents Day Jokes)
“It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company.” George Washington (Top George Washington Quotes)
“And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you — ask what you can do for your country.” John F. Kennedy (JFK Quotes)
“Don’t pray for an easy life, pray to be a stronger man.” John F. Kennedy (JFK Quotes)
“Children are 1/3rd of our population and all of our future.” Select Panel for the Promotion of Child Health 1981
“I am learning all the time. The tombstone will be my diploma.” Ertha Kitt
“To teach is to learn twice.” Joseph Joubert
“You can teach a student a lesson for a day; but if you can teach him to learn, he will continue the learning process.” Clay P. Bedford
“A master can tell you what he expects of you. A teacher…awakens your own expectations.” Patricia Neal
“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’. ” Maria Montessori
“The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.” Mark Van Doren
“The dream begins with a teacher who believes in you… who tugs and pushes and leads you to the next plateau.” Dan Rather
“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 (Top Psychology Jokes)

“The dream begins with a teacher who believes in you… who tugs and pushes and leads you to the next plateau.” Dan Rather
“We expect teachers to handle teen pregnancy, abuse, and failings of the family. Then we expect them to educate our children.” John Sculley
“The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.” Mark Van Doren
“The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn.“ John Lubbock
“A good teacher is like a candle – it consumes itself to light the the way for others.” Author Unknown
“When you study great teachers… you will learn much more from their caring and hard work than from their style.” William Glasser
“You learn something every day if you pay attention.” Ray LeBlond
“Teachers who inspire know that teaching is like cultivating a garden.” Author Unknown
“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
“If you’re going to be thinking, you may as well think big.” Donald Trump
“Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others.” Jonathan Swift
“The giving of love is an education in itself.” Eleanor Roosevelt
“Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.” Gail Godwin
“I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teachers for living well.” Alexander the Great
“You can’t stop a teacher when they want to do something. They just do it.” J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
“Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.” Jacques Barzun
“He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.” Henry Ward Beecher
“The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.” Benjamin Disraeli
“Teachers appreciate being appreciated, for teacher appreciation is their highest award.” William Prince
“Life is about using the whole box of crayons.” RuPaul
“Every survival kit should include a sense of humor.” Author Unknown
“It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.” Albert Einstein (Top Albert Einstein Quotes)
“The job of a teacher is to teach students to see the vitality in themselves.” Joseph Campbell
“If a doctor, lawyer, or dentist had 40 people in his office at one time, all of whom had different needs, and some whom didn’t want to be there and were causing trouble, and the doctor, lawyer, or dentist, without assistance, had to treat them all with professional excellence for nine months, the he might have some conception of the classroom teacher’s job.” Donald D. Quinn
“A teacher’s purpose is not to create students in his own image, but to develop students who can create their own image.” Author Unknown
“We are all special cases.” Albert Camus
“Teachers are expected to reach unattainable goals with inadequate tools. The miracle is that at times they accomplish this task.” Haim Ginott
“Personal relationships are the fertile soil from which all advancement, all success, all achievement, in real life grows.” Ben Stein
“Teacher appreciation makes the world of education go around.” Helen Peters
“Mighty things from small beginnings grown.” John Dryden
“I can live two months on a good compliment.” Mark Twain (Top Mark Twain Quotes)
“Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.” Plato
“The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.” Eric Hoffer

October Jokes for Teachers / Top 10 October Pages / September Hashtag of the Day / October Guest Blogs

“Education of the mind without education of the heart is no education at all.” Aristotle
“Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.” John Dewey, the great American philosopher
“Individual commitment to a group effort – that is what makes a team work.” Vince Lombardi
“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.” Aristotle
“The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.” Mark Twain (Mark Twain Quotes)
“Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.” Edward Everett
“Man’s mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.” Oliver Wendell Holmes
“Education’s purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.” Malcolm Forbes
“The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.” Carl Rogers (Psychology Lessons & Psychology Jokes)
“Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom.” George Washington Carver
“My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors.” Maya Angelou
“The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you.” B.B. King
“Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained.” James A Garfield
“The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life.” Plato
“The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character – that is the goal of true education.” Martin Luther King Jr. (Martin Luther King Jr. Quotes)
“Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.” William James
“Example isn’t another way to teach, it is the only way to teach.” Albert Einstein (Albert Einstein Quotes)
“I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.” Mark Twain (Mark Twain Quotes)
“A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.” Thomas Carruthers
“He who opens a school door, closes a prison.” Victor Hugo
“Teaching is the greatest act of optimism.” Colleen Wilcox
“Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.” Chinese Proverb
“The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without his teacher.” Elbert Hubbard
“Teachers who inspire realize there will always be rocks in the road ahead of us.” Unknown
“Good teachers are costly, but bad teachers cost more.” Bob Talbert
“A master can tell you what he expects of you. A teacher, though, awakens your own expectation.” Chinese Proverb
“What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.” George Bernard Shaw
“I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.” Socrates
“Teach the children so it will not be necessary to teach the adults.” Abraham Lincoln
“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
“Education breeds confidence. Confidence breeds hope. Hope breeds peace.” Confucius

August Jokes

“A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step” Chinese proverb
“A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.” Henry Brooks Adams
“Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.” B. F. Skinner
“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” Nelson Mandela (Nelson Mandela Quotes)
“The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.” Aristotle
“Education, then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of man.” Horace Mann (Horace Mann Quotes)
“The more that you read, the more things you will know, the more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.” Dr. Seuss (Dr. Seuss Quotes)
“Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn.” Benjamin Franklin
“Better than a thousand days of diligent study is one day with a great teacher.” Japanese Proverb
“Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.” John Dewey
“What we learn with pleasure we never forget.” Alfred Mercier
“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.” Mahatma Gandhi (Gandhi Quotes)
“I am not a teacher, but an awakener.” Robert Frost
“There is no friend as loyal as a book.” Ernest Hemingway
“The secret in education lies in respecting the student.” Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Education is not filling of a pail but the lighting of a fire.” William Butler Yeats
“What a teacher is, is more important than what he teaches.” Karl Menninger
“The best teachers teach from the heart, not from the book.” Unknown“Every student can learn, just not on the same day, or the same way.” George Evans
“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.” Aristotle
“The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.” Mark Twain (Top Mark Twain Quotes)
“Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.” Edward Everett
“Man’s mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.” Oliver Wendell Holmes
“Education’s purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.” Malcolm Forbes
“The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.” Carl Rogers
“Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom.” George Washington Carver
“My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors.” Maya Angelou
“The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you.” B.B. King
“Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained.” James A. Garfield
“The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life.” Plato
“The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character – that is the goal of true education.” Martin Luther King Jr. (Top 50 Martin Luther King Jr. Quotes)
“Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.” William James

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