This document contains a collection of inspirational quotes about education from various notable figures such as Malcolm X, Albert Einstein, John Dewey, Mahatma Gandhi, and others. The quotes discuss topics like the importance of education in shaping the future, the role of teachers in providing an environment for learning rather than direct instruction, learning as a lifelong process, and education's ability to empower change in the world.

1. Inspirational Quotes for
Teachers
A Random Collection

2. “Education is our passport to
the future, for tomorrow
belongs to the people who
prepare for it today”.
- Malcolm X

3. “I never teach my pupils. I only
attempt to provide the
conditions in which they can
learn”.
- Albert Einstein

4. “The most important attitude
that can be found is the desire
to go on learning”.
- John Dewey

5. “Education is a social process.
Education is growth. Education is
not a preparation for life; education
is life itself”.
- John Dewey

6. “Live as it you were to die
tomorrow. Learn as if you
were to live forever”.
- Mahatma Ghandi

7. “You can never be
overdressed or
overeducated”.
- Oscar Wilde

8. “Education is the most
powerful weapon which you
can use to change the
world”.
- Nelson Mandela

9. “Intelligence plus character
– that is the true goal of
education”.
-Martin Luther King

10. “The task of the modern
educator is not to cut down
jungles but to irrigate
deserts”.
- C.S. Lewis

11. “Kids don’t remember what you
try to teach them, they
remember what you are”.
- Jim Henson

12. “Study without desire spoils
the memory, and it retains
nothing that it takes in”.
- Leonardo da Vinci

13. “The educated differ from the
uneducated as much as the
living differ from the dead”.
- Aristotle

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

15. “Education of the mind
without education of the
heart is no education at all”.
- Aristotle

16. “The more I live, the more I
learn. The more I learn, the
more I realize, the less I know”.
-Michel Legrand

17. “Anyone who stops learning
is old, whether twenty or
eighty. Anyone who keeps
learning stays young”.
- Henry Ford

18. “Knowledge will bring you
the opportunity to make a
difference”.
- Claire Fagin

19. “Education is the kindling of
a flame, not the filling of a
vessel”.
- Socrates

20. “The earth and sky, woods and
fields, lakes and rivers, the
mountains and sea, are excellent
schoolmasters, and teach some of
us more than we can ever learn
from books”.
- John Lubbock

21. “Learning is not attained by
chance, it must be sought for
with ardour and attended to
with diligence”.
- Abigail Adams

22. “Instruction does much; but
encouragement everything”
- Johann Wolfgang von
Goethe

23. “Wisdom is not a product of
schooling but of the lifelong
attempt to acquire it”.
- Albert Einstein

24. “Wisdom…comes not from
age, but from education and
learning”.
- Anton Chekov

25. “The highest action a human
being can attain is learning for
understanding, because to
understand is to be free”.
- Baruch Spinoza

26. “Spoon feeding in the long run
teaches nothing but the shape
of the spoon”.
- E. M. Forster

27. “A lot of life is a constant
education”.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

28. “The purpose of education is
to replace an empty mind
with an open one”.
- Malcolm Forbes

29. “Education: that which reveals
to the wise and conceals from
the stupid the vast limits of their
knowledge”.
-Mark Twain

30. “The mind once enlightened
cannot again become dark”.
- Thomas Paine

31. “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

32. “Play is the highest form of
research”.
- Albert Einstein

33. “Education breeds
confidence. Confidence
breeds hope. Hope breeds
peace”.
- Confucius

34. “A mind is like an
umbrella, only useful
when open”.
- Unknown

35. “Teachers don’t just teach: they can
be vital personalities who help young
people to mature, to understand the
world, and to understand the
world, and to understand themselves.
A good education consists of much
more than useful facts and
marketable skills”.
- Charles Platt

36. “I touch the future. I
teach.”
- Christa McAuliffe

37. “Teachers are the one and
only people who save
nations.”
- Mustafa Kamal Ataturk

38. “Whenever you read a good
book somewhere in the world a
door opens to allow in more
light”.
- Vera Nazaria

39. “Human resources are like natural
resources; they’re often buried
deep. You have to go looking for
them; they’re not just lying around
on the surface. You have to create
the circumstances where they
show themselves”.
- Ken Robinson

40. “Too often we give children
answers to remember rather
than problems to solve”.
- Roger Lenin

41. “…it’s not just learning that’s
important. It’s learning what
to do with what you learn
and learning why you learn
things that matters”.
- Norton Juster

42. “Education is the
movement from darkness
to light”.
- Allan Bloom.

43. “When the atmosphere
encourages learning, the
learning is irresistible”.
- Elizabeth Frost

44. “A good education helps us
make sense of the world and
find our way in it”.
- Mike Rose