Inspiring Educational Quotes

• The job of an educator is to teach students to see vitality in themselves

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Education, Teacher

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  Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "The Rhythm of Life : Living Every Day with Passion and Purpose" by Matthew Kelly, (p. 80), 2004.

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• The human mind is our fundamental resource.

  John F. Kennedy

  Inspirational, Education, Appreciation

  Special Message to the Congress on Education, February 20, 1961.

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• Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource.

  John F. Kennedy

  Inspiring, Education, Teacher

  Kennedy, John F. (1962). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1961”, p.107, Best Books on

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• The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

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• Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Inspirational, Motivational, Friendship

  "My Country", Volume 2, No. 3, published by Litchfield Historical Society, p. 23, September 1968.

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• Good teaching is more a giving of right questions than a giving of right answers.

  Josef Albers

  Inspirational, Education, Appreciation

  Josef Albers (2006). “Interaction of Color”, p.70, Yale University Press

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• Every truth has four corners: as a teacher I give you one corner, and it is for you to find the other three.

  Confucius

  Inspirational, Education, Teacher

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• Teaching is more than imparting knowledge, it is inspiring change.

  William Arthur Ward

  Motivational, Teacher, Teaching

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• Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people can be engaged in.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Education, Teacher, Teaching

  "Lincoln's Inaugurals, Addresses and Letters".

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• A master can tell you what he expects of you. A teacher, though, awakens your own expectations.

  Patricia Neal

  Teacher, Appreciation, Retirement

  Patricia Neal, Richard DeNeut (1988). “As I am: an autobiography”, Simon & Schuster

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• If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.

  Derek Bok

  Inspirational, Funny, Graduation

  Attributed in Paul Dickson, The Official Rules (1978). An earlier occurrence, without attribution to any individual, was in Wash. Post, 6 Oct. 1975.

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• Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.

  Nelson Mandela

  Inspirational, Change, Inspiring

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• A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.

  Horace Mann

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Education

  Horace Mann (1867). “Thoughts”, p.225

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• The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.

  B. B. King

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  "The Charlotte Observer", p. 2D, October 5, 1997.

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• It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

  Aristotle

  Inspirational, Motivational, Leadership

  Attributed to Aristotle in "Religion and the Pursuit of Truth" by Lowell Lindsay Bennion, p. 52, 1959.

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  Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.

  Jim Rohn

  Motivational, Success, Education

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Jul 04, 2016

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• The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.

  Carl Rogers

  Inspirational, Motivational, Education

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• The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.

  Plutarch

  Inspirational, Leadership, Education

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• The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Inspirational, Education, Travel

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  Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.

  Xunzi

  Inspiring, Leadership, Teacher

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• Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.

  Robert M. Hutchins

  Life, Education, Teacher

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• The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Education, Teacher, Teaching

  Martin Luther King (1992). “The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr”, p.124, Univ of California Press

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• The greatest sign of success for a teacher...is to be able to say, "The children are now working as if I did not exist."

  Maria Montessori

  Inspirational, Life, Success

  "The Absorbent Mind" by Maria Montessori, Ch. 27, (p. 283), 1949.

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