Teaching Quotes

"I really love teaching; I was actually studying to be a preschool teacher."

“When I taught, all my best students were women.”

"If people remember me as a good teacher, that will be the biggest honour for me."

"I touch the future. I teach."

Christa McAuliffe

"Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well."

"While we teach, we learn."

Seneca

"To teach is to learn twice."

Joseph Joubert

"Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition."

Jacques Barzun

"The first principle of true teaching is that nothing can be taught."

Sri Aurobindo

"Who dares to teach must never cease to learn."

John Cotton Dana

"A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher who is not teaching."

G. K. Chesterton

"Whoever teaches learns in the act of teaching, and whoever learns teaches in the act of learning."

Paulo Freire

"I never teach my pupils, I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn."

Albert Einstein

"Teaching is the highest form of understanding."

"The best way to learn is to teach."

Frank Oppenheimer

"If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others."

Tryon Edwards

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

Kahlil Gibran

"If I can get some student interested in science, if I can show members of the general public what's going on up there in the space program, then my job's been done."

Christa McAuliffe

"Teaching is a very noble profession that shapes the character, caliber, and future of an individual."

"Children learn more from what you are than what you teach."

W. E. B. Du Bois

"The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom."

Henry Ward Beecher

"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

"One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters."

George Herbert

"Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction."

Anne Sullivan

"There is no school equal to a decent home and no teacher equal to a virtuous parent."