Top Quotes About Teaching

Quotes for Teachers

These quotes were written for and about teachers and education. Enjoy!

1. "Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater. " ~Gail Godwin
2. "If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others. " ~Tryon Edwards
3. "A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on a cold iron." ~Horace Mann
4. "When a teacher calls a boy by his entire name, it means trouble." ~Mark Twain
5. "Education, then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of man...." ~Horace Mann
6. "A master can tell you what he expects of you. A teacher, though, awakens your own expectations." ~Patricia Neal
7. "The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires." ~William Arthur Ward
8. "A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary." ~Thomas Carruthers
9. "I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think. ~Socrates
10. "The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery." ~Mark Van Doren
11. "Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it. " ~Samuel Johnson
12. "The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change." ~Carl Rogers
13. "If you think education is expensive, try ignorance." ~Derek Bok