1. Educational Quotes Time to Think and Reflect

2. Good schools, like good societies and good families, celebrate and cherish diversity. -- Deborah Meier

3. Every student can learn, just not on the same day, or the same way. -- George Evans

4. That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way. -- Doris Lessing

5. What is important is to keep learning, to enjoy challenge, and to tolerate ambiguity. In the end there are no certain answers. -- Martina Horner

6. Do not train children to learning by force and harshness, but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each. -- Plato

7. As a teacher I feel I have a moral obligation to help the children in my classroom grow toward becoming full human beings and to feel successful. Teaching cognitive skills is not enough... --Jean Medick

8. Learning to teach is a bigger job than universities, schools, experience, or personal disposition alone can accomplish. -- Sharon Feiman-Nemser

9. In a completely rational society, the best of us would aspire to be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something less, because passing civilization along from one generation to the next ought to be the highest honor and the highest responsibility anyone could have. -- Lee Iacocca

10. Don't set your wit against a child. -- Jonathan Swift

11. It must be remembered that the purpose of education is not to fill the minds of students with facts... it is to teach them to think, if that is possible, and always to think for themselves. -- Robert Hutchins

12. The secret of teaching is to appear to have known all your life what you learned this afternoon. -- Anonymous

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

14. The job of an educator is to teach students to see vitality in themselves. -- Joseph Campbell

15. hear, and I forget. I see, and I remember. I do, and I understand. -- Chinese Proverb

16. Education is not the filling of a bucket, but the lighting of a fire. -- W. B. Yeats

17. The objective of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives. -- Robert Maynard Hutchins

18. There is a brilliant child locked inside every student. -- Marva Collins

19. A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops. -- Henry B. Adams

20. Information cannot replace education. -- Earl Kiole

21. We all need someone who inspires us to do better than we know how. -- Anonymous

22. The kids in our classroom are infinitely more significant than the subject matter we teach. -- Meladee McCarty

23. Teaching is not a profession; it's a passion. -- Unknown

24. Your heart is slightly bigger than the average human heart, but that's because you're a teacher. -- Aaron Bacall

25. A teacher effects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops. -- Henry Adams

26. Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten. -- B. F. Skinner

27. Children need models rather than critics. -- Joseph Joubert

28. Education is more than filling a child with facts. It starts with posing questions. -- D.T. Max

29. It's okay to make mistakes. Mistakes are our teachers -- they help us to learn. -- John Bradshaw

30. It's not what is poured into a student, but what is planted. --Linda Conway

31. Instruction begins when you, the teacher, learn from the learner; put yourself in his place so that you may understand… what he learns and the way he understands it. -- Soren Kierkegaard

32. The highest result of education is tolerance. -- Helen Keller

33. You can teach a student a lesson for a day; but if you can teach him to learn by creating curiosity, he will continue the learning process as long as he lives. -- Clay P. Bedford

34. Take a deep breath, count to ten, and tackle each task one step at a time. -- Linda Shalaway

35. Nothing is ever achieved without enthusiasm. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

36. Learning is not a spectator sport. -- Anonymous

37. The important thing is not to stop questioning. --Albert Einstein

38. A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary. -- Thomas Carruthers

39. The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires. -- William Arthur Ward

40. All of us do not have equal talent, but all of us should have an equal opportunity to develop our talent. -- John F. Kennedy

41. The man who can make hard things easy is the educator. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

42. Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever. -- Gandhi

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

44. Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere. -- Chinese Proverb

45. You don't understand anything until you learn it more than one way. -- Marvin Minsky

46. 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

47. I teach therefore I am. -- Anonymous

48. Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has. -- Margaret Mead

49. Everyone in this room is a teacher. -- BJ Gallagher