Teacher Quotes

"The main object of teaching is not to explain meanings, but to knock at the door of the mind."

"Literacy is not the end of education or even the beginning."

"The second principle is that the mind has to be consulted in its own growth."

Sri Aurobindo

"If I made the whole earth my paper, all the forests my pens, and the seven seas my ink, still the virtues of my Guru could not be written."

Kabir

"Learning is the true imperishable wealth; all other things are not wealth."

Thiruvalluvar

"Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere."

Chanakya

"Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is."

Isaac Asimov

"I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something."

Richard Feynman

"Once children learn how to learn, nothing is going to narrow their mind."

Marva Collins

"Students will rise to the level of expectations."

Jaime Escalante

"Creativity is as important as literacy and we should treat it with the same status."

Sir Ken Robinson

"Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all."

"The proper education of the young does not consist in stuffing their heads with a mass of words, sentences, and ideas dragged out of various authors, but in opening up their understanding to the outer world."

John Amos Comenius

"Childhood has its own way of seeing, thinking and feeling, and nothing is more foolish than to try and substitute ours for theirs."

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

"Play is the highest expression of human development in childhood."

Friedrich Froebel

"The whole world opened to me when I learned to read."

Mary McLeod Bethune

"Upon the subject of education, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people can be engaged in."

"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

"If the teacher combines love for his work and his pupils, he is a perfect teacher."

Leo Tolstoy

"He who opens a school door, closes a prison."

Victor Hugo

"Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing."

Albert Schweitzer

"Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty."

Henry Ford

"I am still learning."

Michelangelo

"A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination."

"No man can reveal to you aught but that which already lies half asleep in the dawning of your knowledge."

Kahlil Gibran