These Are 17 Handpicked Quotes, That Teachers And Educators Will Love!
Teaching can be exhausting, but these 17 quotes will surely brighten your day! Quotes from C.S. Lewis, Bill Gates, Maria Montessori, and more!
“It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.” -Albert Einstein
“There is no recipe to be a great teacher, that’s what is unique about them.” -Robert Sternberg“The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.” -C. S. Lewis“There are two kinds of teachers: the kind that fills you with so much quail shot that you can’t move, and the kind that just gives you a little prod behind and you jump to the skies.” -Robert Frost
“None of us got where we are solely by pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps. We got here because somebody – a parent, a teacher, an Ivy League crony or a few nuns – bent down and helped us pick up our boots.” – Thurgood Marshall“Everybody’s a teacher if you listen.” -Doris Roberts“Excellence is a better teacher than mediocrity. The lessons of the ordinary are everywhere. Truly profound and original insights are to be found only in studying the exemplary.’ -Warren Bennis“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“Every child should have a caring adult in their lives. And that’s not always a biological parent or family member. It may be a friend or neighbor. Often times it is a teacher.” -Joe Manchin“Teaching is the only major occupation of man for which we have not yet developed tools that make an average person capable of competence and performance. In teaching we rely on the ‘naturals’, the ones who somehow know how to teach.” -Peter Drucker“The true aim of everyone who aspires to be a teacher should be, not to impart his own opinions, but to kindle minds.” -Frederick William Robertson“Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.” -Bill Gates“Teachers believe they have a gift for giving; it drives them with the same irrepressible drive that drives others to create a work of art or a market or a building.” -A. Bartlett Giamatti“The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.” -William Arthur Ward“Let us remember: One book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world.” -Malala Yousafzai“The greatest sign of success for a teacher… is to be able to say, ‘The children are now working as if I did not exist.” -Maria Montessori“Consistency is always the best teacher.” -Stephon Marbury
