Top 100 Teaching Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “A good teacher can inspire hope, ignite the imagination, and instill a love of learning.”

— Brad Henry

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2. “No matter what anybody tells you, words and ideas can change the world.”

— Robin Williams

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3. “I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.”

— John Steinbeck

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4. “Don’t judge. Teach. It’s a learning process.”

— Carol S. Dweck

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5. “The only way to learn mathematics is to do mathematics.”

— Paul Halmos

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6. “He who learns but does not think, is lost. He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.”

— Confucius

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7. “We are here to awaken from our illusion of separateness.”

— Thich Nhat Hanh

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8. “Live so that when your children think of fairness, caring, and integrity, they think of you.”

— H. Jackson Brown Jr.

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9. “Teach principles not formulas.”

— Richard P. Feynman

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10. “Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.”

— Dr. Seuss

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11. “Coding is today’s language of creativity. All our children deserve a chance to become creators instead of consumers of computer science.”

— Maria Klawe

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12. “The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.”

— Mark Van Doren

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13. “When you lose, don’t lose the lesson.”

— Dalai Lama XIV

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14. “Be a lamp unto yourselves! Work out your liberation with diligence! Fill your mind with compassion!”

— Buddha

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15. “We need to teach how doubt is not to be feared but welcomed. It’s OK to say, “I don’t know.””

— Richard P. Feynman

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16. “Fun is just another word for learning.”

— Raph Koster

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17. “There is no learning without having to pose a question. And a question requires doubt.”

— Richard P. Feynman

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18. “We learn best in moments of enjoyment.”

— Ralph C. Smedley

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19. “The object of education is not to fill a man’s mind with facts; it is to teach him how to use his mind in thinking.”

— Henry Ford

20. “If you learn something new every day, you can teach something new every day.”

— Martha Stewart

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21. “True education is to learn how to think, not what to think. If you know how to think, if you really have that capacity, then you are a free human being-free of dogmas, superstitions, ceremonies-and therefore you can find out what religion is.”

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

22. “Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.”

— John Dewey

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23. “Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.”

— Benjamin Franklin

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24. “One of the very important characteristics of a student is to question. Let the students ask questions.”

— Abdul Kalam

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25. “All of life is education and everybody is a teacher and everybody is forever a pupil.”

— Abraham Maslow

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26. “Don’t limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

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27. “It’s okay to make mistakes. Mistakes are our teachers – they help us to learn.”

— John Bradshaw

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28. “Do not indoctrinate your children. Teach them how to think for themselves, how to evaluate evidence, and how to disagree with you.”

— Richard Dawkins

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29. “The difference between school and life? In school, you’re taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you’re given a test that teaches you a lesson.”

— Tom Bodett

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30. “The mother is the first teacher of the child. The message she gives that child, that child gives to the world.”

— Malcolm X

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31. “Teaching that impacts is not head to head, but heart to heart.”

— Howard G. Hendricks

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32. “Believe in yourself, learn, and never stop wanting to build a better world.”

— Mary McLeod Bethune

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33. “A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.”

— Henry Adams

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34. “If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.”

— Derek Bok

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35. “Reading is important, because if you can read, you can learn anything about everything and everything about anything.”

— Tomie dePaola

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36. “There can be no learning without action, and no action without learning.”

— Reg Revans

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37. “Mathematics is not a spectator sport!”

— George Pólya

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38. “Our youth should also be educated with music and physical education.”

— Aristotle

39. “The object of education is to teach us to love what is beautiful.”

— Plato

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40. “If you are still following your likes and dislikes, you have not even begun to practise Dhamma.”

— Ajahn Chah

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41. “Education must not simply teach work-it must teach life.”

— W. E. B. Du Bois

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42. “The cultivation of Human Values alone is Education.”

— Sathya Sai Baba

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43. “If children feel safe, they can take risks, ask questions, make mistakes, learn to trust, share their feelings, and grow.”

— Alfie Kohn

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44. “Education is a lifelong journey whose destination expands as you travel.”

— Jim Stovall

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45. “Seek spiritual riches within. What you are is much greater than anyone or anything else you have ever yearned for.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

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46. “If you are in a dark room, don’t beat at the darkness with a stick, but rather try to turn on the light.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

Also featured in: Inner Peace Quotes

47. “People like it when they understand something that they previously thought they couldn’t understand. It’s a sense of empowerment.”

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

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48. “At our best, we are all teachers.”

— Maya Angelou

Also featured in: Teacher Appreciation Quotes

49. “You and I are the same. What I have done is surely possible for all. You are the Self now and can never be anything else. Throw your worries to the wind, turn within and find Peace.”

— Ramana Maharshi

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50. “To reach peace, teach peace.”

— Pope John Paul II

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