Educational Quotes

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


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

"Education sows not seeds in you, but makes your seeds grow."

  --  Kahlil Gibran

He who opens a school door, closes a prison. ~Victor Hugo

"If a child can't learn the way we teach, maybe we should teach the way they learn."

  --  Ignacio Estrada

The secret of education is respecting the pupil.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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



Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle



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



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



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



A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him.
-- James Baldwin



What sculpture is to a block of marble
education is to the human soul.
Joseph Addison



"I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework." -- Edith Ann, [Lily Tomlin]



“When you know better you do better.”
― Maya Angelou



Tell me and I’ll forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and I’ll understand.
Chinese proverb



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




The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize.

-Franklin D. Roosevelt 

“Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.”
― Margaret Mead

“True teachers are those who use themselves as bridges over which they invite their students to cross; then, having facilitated their crossing, joyfully collapse, encouraging them to create their
own.”
― Nikos Kazantzakis

“The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark.” 

― Thomas Paine

“I am not a teacher, but an awakener.”
― Robert Frost

“When you know better you do better.”
― Maya Angelou

Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time. Rabindranath Tagore