A Collection of Quotes

A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.

Henry B. Adams

Do not train children to learning by force and harshness, but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each.

Plato

Lee Iacocca

Every job is a self-portrait of the person who did it. Autograph your work with excellence.

Unknown

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

Albert Einstein

If you can't say something nice, don't say anything at all.

Thumper's father (Bambi 1942)

Sir Winston Churchill

Learning to teach is a bigger job than universities, schools, experience, or personal disposition alone can accomplish.

Sharon Feiman-Nemser

There is a brilliant child locked inside every student.

Marva Collins

What is important is to keep learning, to enjoy challenge, and to tolerate ambiguity. In the end there are no certain answers.

Martina Horner

When the winds of change blow, some people build walls and others build windmills.

Chinese Proverb

Any fool can see what's wrong but can you see what's right?

Richard Henry Dann

Justice Leland DeGrasse -- NY

Will Durant

A professor can never better distinguish himself in his work than by encouraging a clever pupil, for the true discoverers are among them, as comets amongst the stars.

Linnaeus

Good schools, like good societies and good families, celebrate and cherish diversity.

Deborah Meiers

A teacher effects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.

Henry Adams

Unknown

I live by one principle: Enjoy life with no conditions!

People say, "If I had your health, if I had your money, oh, I would enjoy myself."

It is not true. I would be happy if I were lying sick in a hospital bed. It must come from the inside. That is the one thing I hop I have contributed to my children, by example and by talk: to make no conditions, to understand that life is a wonderful thing and to enjoy it, every day, to the full.

To me the world is divided into two kinds of people: those who are conscious and those who are unconscious. To me there is no difference among men when it comes to their color, their race, their religion; they are all equal. Only the degree of their awareness of the world they live in, of the joy and the pleasure of living, of the need of sharing that awareness with others and bringing it to their fellowmen (if they happen to be fortunate enough to have talent) is a measure of this difference.

During my long life I have learned one lesson: that the most important thing is to realize why one is alive - and I think it is not only to build bridges or tall buildings or make money, but to do something truly important, to do something for humanity. To bring joy, hope, to make life richer for the spirit because you have been alive, that is the most important thing.

Arthur Rubinstein

Nothing is ever achieved without enthusiasm.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Albert Einstein

Jacques Martin Barzun

It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.

Alec Bourne

They may forget what you said but they will never forget how you made them feel.

Anonymous

Pete Seeger

William Butler Yeats

Dorothy De Zouche

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

Mark Twain

Your heart is slightly bigger than the average human heart, but that's because you're a teacher.

Aaron Bacall

Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people may be engaged in.

Abraham Lincoln

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Jiddu Krishnamurti

That is the difference between good teachers and great teachers: good teachers make the best of a pupil's means; great teachers foresee a pupil's ends.

Maria Callas

Information cannot replace education.

Earl Kiole

We all need someone who inspires us to do better than we know how.

Anonymous

Instruction begins when you, the teacher, learn from the learner; put yourself in his place so that you may understandÂ… what he learns and the way he understands it.

Soren Kierkegaard

The kids in our classroom are infinitely more significant than the subject matter we teach.

Meladee McCarty

It must be remembered that the purpose of education is not to fill the minds of students with facts... it is to teach them to think, if that is possible, and always to think for themselves.

Robert Hutchins

Every student can learn, just not on the same day, or the same way.

George Evans

You can teach a student a lesson for a day; but if you can teach him to learn by creating curiosity, he will continue the learning process as long as he lives.

Clay P. Bedford

John Adams

The objective of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.

Robert Maynard Hutchins

A word as to the education of the heart. We don't believe that this can be imparted through books; it can only be imparted through the loving touch of the teacher.

Cesar Chavez

Clarence Thomas

My heart is singing for joy this morning. A miracle has happened! The light of understanding has shone upon my little pupil's mild, and behold, all things are changed.

Anne Sullivan

Hosea Ballou

Children need models rather than critics.

Joseph Joubert

Mark Twain

Take a deep breath, count to ten, and tackle each task one step at a time.

Linda Shalaway

Brian Tracy

As a teacher I feel I have a moral obligation to help the children in my classroom grow toward becoming full human beings and to feel successful. Teaching cognitive skills is not enough...

Jean Medick

 

Teaching is not a profession; it's a passion.

Unknown

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

Edith Hamilton

Bernard Iddings Bell Chaplain, University of Chicago

Calvin Coolidge

If I were asked ... to what the singular prosperity and growing strength of Americans ought mainly to be attributed, I should reply: To the superiority of their women.

Alexis de Tocqueville

Chinese proverb

Education is the best provision for old age.

Aristotle

The important thing is not to stop questioning.

Albert Einstein

Education is more than filling a child with facts. It starts with posing questions.

D.T. Max

In a completely rational society, the best of us would aspire to be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something less, because passing civilization along from one generation to the next ought to be the highest honor and the highest responsibility anyone could have.

Lee Iacocca

It is books that are the key to the wide world; if you can't do anything else, read all that you can.

Jane Hamilton

B. F. Skinner

Malcolm Forbes

It is the responsibility of every adult... to make sure that children hear what we have learned from the lessons of life and to hear over and over that we love them and that they are not alone.

Marian Wright Edelman

It's not what is poured into a student, but what is planted.

Linda Conway

If people did not do silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Learning is not a spectator sport.

Anonymous

Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life. Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism.

David M. Burns

Unknown

Robert Frost

We're going to have the best-educated American people in the world.

Dan Quayle

Robert Maynard Hutchins

Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.

Confucius

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

Aristotle

We all have our time machines. Some take us back, they're called memories. Some take us forward, they're called dreams.

Jeremy Irons

The highest result of education is tolerance.

Helen Keller

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

Confucious (551 BC - 479 BC)

That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way.

Doris Lessing

The job of an educator is to teach students to see vitality in themselves.

Joseph Campbell

Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778)

Jim Rohn