Inspirational Quotes : Teachers
1
A good teacher is one whose students surpass him and make him increasingly less necessary
Author Unknown
2
School can be a tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration.
David Higgins (original author – Goethe: see below, David Higgins adapted the phrase in term of schooling)
3
Criticism should not be querulous and wasting, all knife and root-puller, but guiding, instructive, inspiring.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
4
A mind is a fore to be kindled, not a vessel to be filled.
Plutarch
5
Education is a weapon, whose effect depends on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.
Joseph Stalin
6
The secret of education is respecting the pupils.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
7
Life is amazing; and the teacher had better prepare himself to be a medium for that amazement.
Edward Blishen
8
Tell me and I forget. Show me and I remember. Involve me and I understand.
Chinese proverbs
9
Education is an ornament in prosperity and refuge in adversity.
Aristotle
10
A teacher affects eternity
Henry B. Adams
11
The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards
Anatole France
