Inspirational Teacher Quotes

Besides parents or other caregivers, teachers help shape us more than any other people we may come across. The following are inspirational quotes for teachers and those who admire them. Share one of these quotes with a teacher who has inspired you.

You cannot teach a man anything. You can only help him discover it within himself.
-Galileo Galilei

The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
-William Arthur Ward

Great minds discuss ideas; Average minds discuss events; Small minds discuss people.
-Eleanor Roosevelt

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

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

We learn by teaching.
-James Howell

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

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

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

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

I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.
-Lily Tomlin as "Edith Ann"

The best teachers teach from the heart, not from the book.
-Author Unknown

He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
-Victor Hugo

What the teacher is, is more important than what he teaches.
-Karl Menninger

If a doctor, lawyer, or dentist had 40 people in his office at one time, all of whom had different needs, and some of 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, then he might have some conception of the classroom teacher's job.
-Donald D. Quinn

Tell me, and I'll forget, show me and I may remember, involve me and I'll understand.
-Chinese Proverb

The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
-William Arthur Ward

You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you always remain a pupil.
-Friedrich Nietzsche

If a child can't learn the way we teach, maybe we should teach the way they learn.
-Ignacio Estrada