
‘A great teacher can teach Calculus with a paper clip and literature in an empty field. You can know it without fail because it awakens within you that sensation which tells you this is something you have always known.’ –Frank HerbetĢ1.

‘Proper teaching is recognized with ease. ‘A good teacher is like a candle – it consumes itself to light the way for others.’ –Mustafa Kemal AtatürkĢ0. ‘I am not a teacher, but an awakener.’ –Robert Frostġ9. ‘The best teachers are the ones that change their minds.’ –Terry Heickġ8. The great teacher inspires.’ ― William Arthur Wardġ7. See also 52 Of Our Favorite Inspirational Quotes About Teachingġ6. ‘In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something else.’ –Lee Iacocca ‘The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence.’ –Amos Bronson Alcottġ5. Your job is to simply do your work… sacredly, secretly, silently … and those with “eyes to see and ears to hear’ will respond.’ –The Arturiansġ4. ‘Your work is not to drag the world kicking and screaming into a new awareness. ‘I cannot be a teacher without exposing who I am.’ –Paulo Freireġ3. ‘Teachers teach someone something, in that order.’ –Samuel Nataleġ2. Those that understand, teach.’ –Aristotleġ1. ‘I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.’ –Socratesġ0. ‘A teacher affects eternity: he can never tell where his influence stops.’ –Henry Adamsĩ. ‘When one teaches, two learn.’ –Robert HeinleinĨ. ‘Teaching is the highest form of understanding.’ –Aristotleħ. ‘I never teach my pupils I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.’ –Albert EinsteinĦ. ‘I am not a teacher, but an awakener.’ –Robert Frostĥ. ‘A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.’ –Thomas CarruthersĤ.

“Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.’ –Jacques Barzunģ. ‘Education is not the filling of a pot but the lighting of a fire.’ –W.B.

We’ve shared our favorite quotes about learning so for this post, the premise is simple enough and the format explains itself: 50 of the best quotes about teaching.ġ. In that way, some will be familiar, some way will be about formal education, some will be sourced from old proverbs, etc. With that in mind, we’ve collected some of the more famous quotes about teaching, doing our best to include a wide range of perspectives, cultures, nationalities, races, spiritualities–many of the things that make ‘us’ different, we tried to somehow use to curate the quotes. It’s about content, hearts, minds, the past, the future–whatever we can imagine, teaching and learning are both causes and effects. It’s about people but framed through ideas. Teaching is conceptual and intellectual, abstract and concrete, creative, and sequential.
