Inspiring Teacher Quotes
Some of history’s greatest discoveries were made when people challenged the status quo. Teachers constantly have to question what they’re teaching their students, and how. They also have to teach their students how to ask good questions. Below are some inspiring teacher quotes that convey the importance of asking questions in learning and teaching.
“Personally, I am always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.”
– Winston Churchill
“What happens to the rat that stops running the maze? / The doctors think it’s dumb when it’s just disappointed.”
– Mark Eitzel
“It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, bare-foot irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known but to question it.”
– Jacob Bronowski
“All this pitting of sex against sex, of quality against quality; all this claiming of superiority and imputing of inferiority, belong to the private-school stage of human existence where there are “sides,” and it is necessary for one side to beat another side, and of the utmost importance to walk up to a platform and receive from the hands of the headmaster himself a highly ornamental pot. As people mature they cease to believe in sides or in headmasters or in highly ornamental pots.”
– Virginia Woolf
“A sobering thought… What if, right at this very moment, I am living up to my full potential?”
– Jane Wagner
What inspirational teacher quotes do you know? Share them in the comments below!
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SOURCE: “Sunbeams.” The Sun Magazine, May 2015: 48. Print.
Go out in the world and do well…but more importantly, go out in the world and do good!
-Minor Myers, Illinois Wesleyan University
Life has no remote…get up and change it yourself!
To the author of “Life has no remote; get-up and change it yourself!” . Brillant quote! I love that! I’ve never heard this one before, and now I won’t forget it. These are very wise words to live by. Please share more….
It may be that your sole purpose in life is simply to serve as a warning to others! 🙂
Save the Earth… It’s the only planet with chocolate!
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Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure… than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.
–Teddy Roosevelt
Teaching demands the strength to think in a time of thoughtlessness, the courage to care in a culture of carelessness…Although there is always more to learn, and more to know as a teacher, the heart of teaching is a passionate regard for students.