Teaching Quotes
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Teaching 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. I love ever quote in this little collection, but Albert Einstein’s is my favorite. In his words, “It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.” Those are two big touch stones for me: joy and creative expression. In my experience they hold the key to finding happiness, meaning, passion and purpose in our lives. All teachers teach what they most need to learn. Encourage joy and creative expression and you’ll be the best of teachers for yourself and others.
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Ken Robinson Tweet this Quote!
As the visceral imagination is opened up, the intuition is given muscles, and we can teach on our feet, and be informed by what has great capacity to guide us.
Celeste Snowber
We are not taught to be thinkers, but reflectors of our culture. Let's teach our children to be thinkers.
Jacque Fresco
A teacher is a compass that activates the magnets of curiosity, knowledge and wisdom in the pupils.
Ever Garrison
You cannot transmit wisdom and insight to another person. The seed is already there. A good teacher touches the seed, allowing it to wake up, to sprout and to grow.
Thich Nhat Hanh
The best teachers are those who show you where to look, but don’t tell you what to see.
Alexandra K. Trenfor Tweet this Quote!
The essence of teaching is to make learning contagious, to have one idea spark another.
Marva Collins Tweet this Quote!
I am not a teacher, but an awakener.
Robert Frost Tweet this Quote!
I cannot teach you violence, as I do not myself believe in it. I can only teach you not to bow your heads before anyone even at the cost of your life.
Mahatma Gandhi
To waken interest and kindle enthusiasm is the sure way to teach easily and successfully.
Tryon Edwards Tweet this Quote!
Teach them how to fly.
Dan Chesbro Tweet this Quote!
Experience is the worst teacher. It always gives the test first and the instruction afterward.
Benjamin Franklin Tweet this Quote!
To teach is to learn twice.
Joseph Joubert Tweet this Quote!
We teachers can only help the work going on, as servants wait upon a master.
Maria Montessori Tweet this Quote!
To teach is to learn.
Japanese Proverb Tweet this Quote!
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
If we learn to open our hearts, anyone, including the people who drive us crazy, can be our teacher.
Pema Chödrön
Teaching is the greatest act of optimism.
Colleen Wilcox Tweet this Quote!
I do not teach children. I give them joy.
Isadora Duncan Tweet this Quote!
Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach.
Aristotle Tweet this Quote!
It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.
Albert Einstein Tweet this Quote!
Everyone and everything around you is your teacher.
Ken Keyes, Jr. Tweet this Quote!
I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
Socrates Tweet this Quote!
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
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
William Arthur Ward
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