motivational quotes for teachers

“Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.” - Malcolm X. 

 

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“A sense of curiosity is nature’s original school of education.” - Smiley Blanton. 

 

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“Good teachers are the ones who can challenge young minds without losing their own.” - Anonymous.

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“Intelligence plus character - that is the true goal of education.” - Martin Luther King Jr. 

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“Learn as much as you can while you are young, since life becomes too busy later.” - Dana Stewart Scott.

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“Live as if you were to die tomorrow; learn as if you were to live forever.” - Mahatma Ghandi. 

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“If people did not do silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done.” – Ludwig Wittgenstein. 

 

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“You don’t have to be great to get started, but you have to get started to be great.” – Les Brown.

 

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“Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better.” – Maya Angelou.

 

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“The teacher is one who makes two ideas grow where only one existed before.” - Elbert Hubbard. 

 

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“A mind is like a parachute. It doesn’t work if it is not open.” - Frank Zappa. 

 

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“Education is… painful, continuous and difficult work to be done in kindness, by watching, by warning,... by praise, but above all - by example.” - John Ruskin. 

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No matter how good teaching may be, each student must take the responsibility for his own education.

John Carolus S. J.

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

Albert Einstein

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Just believe in yourself. Even if you don’t, pretend that you do and, at some point, you will.” - Venus Williams. 

 

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“The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.” - Albert Einstein. 

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“Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves.” - Abbé Dimnet. 

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“You learn something every day if you pay attention.” - Ray LeBlond. 

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Good teaching is more a giving of right questions than a giving of right answers.

Josef Albers

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I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.

Socrates

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The most extraordinary thing about a really good teacher is that he or she transcends accepted educational methods.

Margaret Mead

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To teach is to touch lives forever.

proverb

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In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something less.

Lee Iacocca

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Spoonfeeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.

E. M. Forster

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Teachers should guide without dictating, and participate without dominating.

C. B. Neblette

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The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be ignited.

Plutarch

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To teach is to learn twice.

Joseph Joubert

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Be the change you wish to see in the world.

 Gandhi

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

Carol Buchne

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You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself.

Galileo Galilei

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Tell me and I'll forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and I'll understand.

proverb