Top 100 Teaching Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “Readers are leaders. Thinkers succeed.”

— Marva Collins

52. “The true purpose of education is to make minds, not careers.”

— Chris Hedges

53. “To teach in a manner that respects and cares for the souls of our students is essential if we are to provide the necessary conditions where learning can most deeply and intimately begin.”

— Bell Hooks

54. “A good teacher explains, while a great teacher inspires.”

— William Arthur Ward

55. “Change is the end result of all true learning.”

— Leo Buscaglia

56. “It’s the teacher that makes the difference, not the classroom.”

— Michael Morpurgo

57. “The gift of knowledge is the highest gift in the world.”

— Swami Vivekananda

58. “Sharing is Caring – Teaching our children to share is teaching them compassion and love.”

— Kevin Heath

59. “If we marry educational technology with quality, enriching content, that’s a circle of win.”

— LeVar Burton

60. “When educating the minds of our youth, we must not forget to educate their hearts.”

— Dalai Lama XIV

61. “It’s my duty to enlighten people.”

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

62. “What the teacher is, is more important than what he teaches.”

— Karl A. Menninger

63. “People learn the most when teaching others.”

— Peter F. Drucker

64. “Teaching is a very noble profession that shapes the character, caliber, and future of an individual. If the people remember me as a good teacher, that will be the biggest honour for me.”

— Abdul Kalam

65. “While we teach, we learn.”

— Seneca the Younger

66. “No one rises to low expectations.”

— Les Brown

67. “Teaching is listening, learning is talking.”

— Deborah Meier

68. “The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.”

— John F. Kennedy

69. “I’m not a teacher: only a fellow traveler of whom you asked the way. I pointed ahead – ahead of myself as well as you.”

— George Bernard Shaw

70. “If you’re teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are.”

— Noam Chomsky

71. “We learn by teaching.”

— James Howell

72. “Teaching is more than imparting knowledge, it is inspiring change.”

— William Arthur Ward

73. “Give the pupils something to do, not something to learn; and the doing is of such a nature as to demand thinking; learning naturally results.”

— John Dewey

74. “Education sows not seeds in you, but makes your seeds grow.”

— Khalil Gibran

75. “It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.”

— René Descartes

76. “What a child can do today with assistance, she will be able to do by herself tomorrow.”

— Lev S. Vygotsky

77. “Learning never exhausts the mind.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

78. “Teaching is a great way to keep learning.”

— Matthea Harvey

79. “The best learning I had came from teaching.”

— Corrie ten Boom

80. “A teacher who cannot explain any abstract subject to a child does not himself thoroughly understand his subject; if he does not attempt to break down his knowledge to fit the child’s mind, he does not understand teaching.”

— Fulton J. Sheen

81. “The greatest medicine of all is teaching people how not to need it.”

— Hippocrates

82. “All teaching and all intellectual learning come about from already existing knowledge.”

— Aristotle

83. “Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new.”

— Og Mandino

84. “Curiosity is the wick in the candle of learning.”

— William Arthur Ward

85. “The objective of education is learning, not teaching.”

— Russell L. Ackoff

86. “The things taught in schools and colleges are not an education, but the means to an education.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

87. “The idea of karma is that you continually get the teaching that you need to open your heart.”

— Pema Chödrön

88. “I have a passion for teaching kids to become readers, to become comfortable with a book, not daunted. Books shouldn’t be daunting, they should be funny, exciting and wonderful; and learning to be a reader gives a terrific advantage.”

— Roald Dahl

89. “Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.”

— Samuel Johnson

90. “What we need is more people who specialize in the impossible.”

— Theodore Roethke

91. “Teaching, may I say, is the noblest profession of all in a democracy.”

— Kurt Vonnegut

92. “Psychiatry is the art of teaching people how to stand on their own feet while reclining on couches.”

— Sigmund Freud

93. “From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life.”

— Arthur Ashe

94. “Adventure is worthwhile in itself.”

— Amelia Earhart

95. “Psychology is a science, and teaching is an art; and sciences never generate arts directly out of themselves.”

— William James

96. “Trials teach us what we are; they dig up the soil, and let us see what we are made of.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

97. “A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.”

— William Blake

98. “Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.”

— Oscar Wilde

99. “We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. When the loyal opposition dies, I think the soul of America dies with it.”

— Edward R. Murrow

100. “It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.”

— Maya Angelou