The word " teacher " represents knowledge; transfer of the knowledge from the teacher to the taught.Teaching is hard, and at times it can seem like energy is in short supply. Sometimes, we all need a little inspiration to remind us why we do what we do.
Even though World Teacher’s Day is celebrated on October 5 every year since 1994, countries like Mexico and Colombia celebrate it on May 15.
Many famous writers, researchers, artists, etc. have stated that we all have at least one teacher who changes our lives. Here are a few famous quotes to celebrate these inspiring mentors.
30 Inspirational Quotes For Teachers
“What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.”
- George Bernard Shaw
“We’re trying to give the young people something that can help them, and we don’t know exactly what it ought to be.”
- Wendell Berry
“Teaching is the greatest act of optimism.”
- Colleen Wilcox
“Students don’t care how much you know until they know how much you care.”
“The dream begins, most of the time, with a teacher who believes in you, who tugs and pushes and leads you on to the next plateau, sometimes poking you with a sharp stick called truth.”
- Dan Rather
“Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.”
- William Butler Yeats
“I’m not sayin’ I’m gonna change the world, but I guarantee that I will spark the brain that will.”
- Tupac Shakur
“Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.”
- John Dewey
“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. It might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.”
- John Steinbeck
“The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.”
- William Ward
“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
“Death is not the greatest loss. The greatest loss is what dies inside while still alive. Never surrender.”
- Tupac Shakur
“A good teacher is like a candle – it consumes itself to light the way for others.”
- Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
“Teaching kids to count is fine, but teaching them what counts is best.”
- Bob Talbert
“You cannot teach a crab to walk straight.”
- Aristophenes
“If a child can’t learn the way we teach, maybe we should teach the way they learn.”
- Ignacio ‘Nacho’ Estrada
“The more that you read, the more things you will know, the more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.”
- Dr. Seuss
“I am not a teacher, but an awakener.”
- Robert Frost
“It takes a big heart to help shape little minds.”
- Unknown
“Teaching is the one profession that creates all other professions.”
- Unknown
“In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something less.”
- Lee Iacocca
“I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.”
- Socrates
“Remember that failure is an event, not a person.”
- Zig Ziglar
“It may be that when we no longer know which way to go that we have come to our real journey. The mind that is not baffled is not employed. The impeded stream is the one that sings.”
- Wendell Berry
“Education breeds confidence. Confidence breeds hope. Hope breeds peace.”
- Confucius
“There is a great difference between knowing and understanding: you can know a lot about something and not really understand it.”
- Charles F. Kettering
“I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.”
- Lily Tomlin
“Thought flows in terms of stories–stories about events, stories about people, and stories about intentions and achievements. The best teachers are the best story tellers. We learn in the form of stories.”
- Frank Martin
“You can’t direct the wind but you can adjust the sails.”
- Anonymous
“The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence.”
- Amos Bronson Alcott
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