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Inspirational Teacher Quotes

Inspirational teachers have taught generations of us in the basics of education subjects. On this page I'll share with you inspirational teacher quotes found throughout history recognizing those who have taught and encourage us to greatear heights and accomplishments. We all have a wonderful teacher (some more than one) who inspired us to become who we are today.

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This page is dedicated to the teachers from our youth who became a part of our life in a very positive way; molding, shaping, encouraging and inspiring.


"A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops."
˜ Henry Adams ˜


What nobler employment, or more valuable to the state, than that of the man who instructs the rising generation.
˜ Marcus Tullius Cicero ˜


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 ˜


Those who educate children well are more to be honored than parents, for these only gave life, those the art of living well.
˜ Aristotle ˜


What office is there which involves more responsibility, which requires more qualifications, and which ought, therefore, to be more honorable than teaching?
˜ Harriet Martineau ˜


By learning you will teach; by teaching you will understand.
˜ Latin Proverb ˜


Education is the mother of leadership.
˜ Wendell L. Willkie ˜


Seldom was any knowledge given to keep, but to impart; the grace of this rich jewel is lost in concealment.
˜ Bishop Hall ˜


If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
˜ Tryon Edwards ˜


We cannot hold a torch to light another's path without brightening our own.
˜ Ben Sweetland ˜


Grammar speaks; dialectics teach us truth; rhetoric gives colouring to our speech; music sings; arithmetic numbers; geometry weighs and measures; astronomy teaches us to know the stars.
˜ Latin Maxim ˜


To know how to suggest is the great art of teaching.
˜ Henri Frederic Amiel ˜


We learn by teaching.
˜ James Howell ˜


Natural ability is by far the best, but many men have succeeded in winning high renown by skill that is the fruit of teaching.
˜ Pindar ˜


It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.
˜ Albert Einstein ˜


The most effective teacher will always be biased, for the chief force in teaching is confidence and enthusiasm.
˜ Joyce Cary ˜


Education is the guardian genius of democracy. It is the only dictator that free men recognize, and the only ruler that free men require.
˜ Mirabeau Buonaparte Lamar ˜


Whatever you want to teach, be brief.
˜ Horace ˜


To me, education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul.
Muriel Spark


Nine-tenths of education is encouragement.
Anatole France


He that teaches us anything which we knew not
before is undoubtedly to be reverenced as a master.
Samuel Johnson


I hear and I forget. I see and I remember.
I do and I understand.
Chinese Proverb


Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant.
Epictetus


Teaching is not a lost art,
but the regard for it is a lost tradition.
Jacques Barzun


Education is the transmission of civilization.
Will Durant


To teach is to learn twice over.
Joseph Joubert


A schoolmaster should have an atmosphere of awe,
and walk wonderingly, as if he was amazed at being himself.
Newton D. Baker


One good teacher in a lifetime may sometimes
change a delinquent into a solid citizen.
Philip Wylie


A child miseducated is a child lost.
John F. Kennedy


A master can tell you what he expects of you. A teacher, though, awakens your own expectations.
Patricia Neal


A good teacher is like a candle - it consumes itself to light the way for others.
- Author Unknown -


A hundred years from now it will not matter what my bank account was, the sort of house I lived in, or the kind of car I drove . . . . but the world maybe different because I was important in the life of a child.
- Kathy Davis -


A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.
- Henry Brooks Adams -

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