Teaching kids seem like a tough job.
With a high-end duty, teachers try day and night to bring out a creative expression that students can enjoy, which also helps in learning. Teaching Kids is the one profession that has no limits.
With that thought in mind, these interesting Tutor quotes have amalgamated ideas of famous people, including William Arthur Ward, Socrates, Oprah Winfrey, Albert Einstein, and many more, to show you how proper school supplies accompanied with a motivating teacher, can change the direction of the world!
Inspirational Tutor Quotes
(Tutor Quotes show the beautiful relationship between a teacher and a student).
The correct motivation from an authoritative figure can shape a student's mind. These inspirational tutor quotes help you analyze just the same.
"Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn."
- Xun Kuang
"The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires."
- William Arthur Ward
"No, if you want to know what society's going to be like in 20 years, ask a kindergarten teacher."
- 'The Call To Learn', Clifford Stoll
"One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings."
- Carl Jung
"You can teach a student a lesson for a day, but if you can teach him to learn by creating curiosity, he will continue the learning process as long as he lives."
- Clay P. Bedford
"The word ‘education’ comes from the root e from ex, out, and duco, I lead. It means a leading out. To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil’s soul."
- 'Twenty-First-Century Perspectives', Muriel Spark
"A good teacher can inspire hope, ignite the imagination, and instill a love of learning."
- Brad Henry
"A teacher is a compass that activates the magnets of curiosity, knowledge, and wisdom in the pupils."
- Ever Garrison
"Children must be taught how to think, not what to think."
- 'Margaret Mead', Geoffrey M. Horn
"Every child deserves a champion—an adult who will never give up on them, who understands the power of connection and insists that they become the best that they can possibly be."
- 'Every Child Deserves A Champion', Rita Pierson
"Your heart is slightly larger than the average human heart, but that's because you're a teacher."
- Aaron Bacall
“Teaching is more than imparting knowledge, it is inspiring change.”
- William Arthur Ward
"All teachings are mere references. The true experience is living your own life."
- Ming-Dao Deng
"Free the child’s potential, and you will transform him into the world."
- Maria Montessori
"I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework."
- Lily Tomlin
"The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence."
- Amos Bronson Alcott
"A good teacher is like a candle—it consumes itself to light the way for others."
- 'A Complete English Grammar on a New Plan', Charles Wiseman
"When we strive to become better teachers than we are, everyone in our classroom becomes better too."
- Robert John Meehan
"The best teachers are those who show you where to look but don’t tell you what to see."
- Alexandra K. Trenfor
"The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically."
- 'The Purpose Of Education', Martin Luther King Jr.
"Never discourage anyone … who continually makes progress, no matter how slow."
- Plato
"Everyone who remembers his own education remembers teachers, not methods and techniques."
- 'Education For Modern Man', Sidney Hook
"Perhaps I occasionally sought to give, or inadvertently gave, to the student a sense of battle on the intellectual battlefield."
- Carl-Gustaf Rossby
"Anyone who does anything to help a child in his life is a hero to me."
- Fred Rogers
"The dream begins with a teacher who believes in you, who tugs and pushes and leads you to the next plateau, sometimes poking you with a sharp stick called truth."
- Dan Rather
"You teach best what you most need to learn."
- Richard Bach
"Teaching is a calling too. And I’ve always thought that teachers in their way are holy—angels leading their flocks out of the darkness."
- Jeannette Walls
"One good teacher in a lifetime may sometimes change a delinquent into a solid citizen."
- Philip Wylie
“Good teaching is more a giving of right questions than a giving of right answers.”
- Josef Albers
"Our fingerprints don't fade from the lives we touch."
- Judy Blume
"At the age of eleven, I began Euclid, with my brother as my tutor. ... I had not imagined that there was anything so delicious in the world."
- 'The Autobiography Of Bertrand Russell', Bertrand Russell
"I cannot be a teacher without exposing who I am."
- 'Pedagogy Of Freedom', Paulo Freire
"I see the mind of the five-year-old as a volcano with two vents: destructiveness and creativeness."
- 'Teacher', Sylvia Ashton-Warner
"Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit."
- 'On Teaching', John Steinbeck
"What the teacher is, is more important than what he teaches."
- Karl Menninger
"Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know."
- Daniel Boorstin
"Teaching is not just a job. It is a human service, and it must be thought of as a mission."
- 'Inspiration', Dr. Ralph Tyler
"I think you learn more if you're laughing at the same time."
- 'The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society', Mary Ann Shaffer
"If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn’t need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around."
- Jim Rohn, May 28, 2019, @OfficialJimRohn
"Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton was the one who asked why."
- Bernard Mannes Baruch
"The work can wait while you show the child the rainbow, but the rainbow won't wait while you do the work."
- Patricia Clafford
Funny Tutor Quotes
Making students learn with jokes is an art. These funny tutor quotes show the witty nature of teachers who implemented fun in teaching.
"A teacher's job is to take a bunch of live wires and see that they are well-grounded."
- Darwin D. Martin
"Teaching reading IS rocket science."
- 'What Expert Teachers of Reading Should Know and Be Able to Do', Louisa Moats
"She used to be a teacher but she has no class now."
- 'Fred Allen's Radio Comedy', Fred Allen
"A mind is like a parachute. It doesn't work if it is not open. "
- October 1927, Louisville Times
"So please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its place you can install, a lovely bookshelf on the wall."
- 'Charlie And The Chocolate Factory', Roald Dahl
"Teachers teach someone something, in that order."
- Samuel Natale
"Teacher who make Physics boring are criminals."
- Walter Lewin
"Being a new teacher is like trying to fly an airplane while building it."
- Rick Smith
"The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts."
- 'The Abolition Of Man', C.S. Lewis, 1943
"Children are like wet cement. Whatever falls on them makes an impression."
- Dr. Haim Ginott
"Coffee: Turning tired teachers into superheroes on a daily basis."
- Heidi McDonald
"Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills."
- 1901, 'Naked Truth And Veiled Allusions', Minna Antrim
"In the school I went to, they asked a kid to prove the law of gravity and he threw the teacher out of the window."
- Rodney Dangerfield
"Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils."
- 1856, 'Pierre Citron (ed.) Correspondance générale (Paris: Flammarion, 1989) vol. 5, p. 390', Louis-Hector Berlioz
"Good teaching is 1/4 preparation and 3/4 theatre."
- Gail Goldwin
"I teach high school math. I sell a product to a market that doesn't want it, but is forced by law to buy it."
- May 2010, 'Math Class Needs A Makeover, TED Talks', Dan Meyer
"Teachers can change lives with just the right mix of chalk and challenges."
- Joyce Meyer
"I can't believe I just saw my teacher at the grocery store! I thought she lived in her classroom!"
- Heidi McDonald
"Give me a fish and I eat for a day. Teach me to fish and I eat for a lifetime."
- Chinese Proverb, Lao Tzu
"I touch the future. I teach."
- Christa McAuliffe, eJewish Philanthropy
"Knowledge is power, and enthusiasm pulls the switch."
- Steve Droke
"Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat."
- Ann Landers
"You cannot teach a crab to walk straight."
- 'Comic Playwright Of Ancient Athens', Aristophanes
"Once you get people laughing, they're listening."
- Herbert Gardner
"What greater or better gift can we offer the republic than to teach and instruct our youth?"
- Marcus T. Cicero
"A BMW can't take you as far as a diploma."
- Joyce A. Myers
Best Tutor Quotes
Teaching requires creativity and patience. These are some of the best tutor quotes that help to inspire a student to learn and come up with several creative ideas.
"I cannot teach anybody anything; I can only make them think."
- Socrates
"You can teach a person all you know, but only experience will convince him that what you say is true."
- Richelle E. Goodrich
"A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary."
- Thomas Carruthers
"The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings."
- Eric Hoffer
“Teaching, the most noble profession, should be rewarded based on merit alone, not seniority.”
- Mark Kostabi
"The best teachers are the ones that change their minds."
- Terry Heick
"Apprenticeship is all about being tutored by those who have trod the path we desire to tread."
- Vincent Okay Nwachukwu
"Teaching is the greatest act of optimism."
- 'Teaching Is The Greatest Act of Optimism: Teachers And Students Year End Notebook Journal Gift 6x9 Inch', Colleen Wilcox
"All students may not remember the teachings of their teachers, but they all remember the teachers."
- 'Wealth Of Words', Amit Kalantri
"The job of an educator is to teach students to see vitality in themselves."
- Joseph Campbell
“Don’t forget your teachers who showed you kindness by teaching you.”
- Lailah Gifty Akita
"The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery."
- 1943, 'Liberal Education', Mark Van Doren
"In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something else."
- Lee Lacocca
"Ask how will they learn best? Not can they learn?"
- Jaime Escalante
"What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul."
- 'The Spectator', Joseph Addison
"Teachers have three loves: love of learning, love of learners, and the love of bringing the first two loves together."
- Scott Hayden
"The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you."
- 1998, 'African American Quotations', B.B. King
"The duties of a teacher are neither few nor small, but they elevate the mind and give energy to the character."
- Dorothea Dix
"If you have to put someone on a pedestal, put teachers. They are society's heroes."
- Guy Kawasaki
"Students don't care how much you know until they know how much you care."
- John C. Maxwell
"A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron."
- Horace Mann, June 1868, The Eclectic Magazine Vol. VII
"Nine-tenths of education is encouragement."
- Anatole France
"If kids come to us from strong, healthy, functioning families, it makes our job easier. If they do not come to us from strong, healthy, functioning families, it makes our job more important."
- Barbara Colorose
"If a child can’t learn the way we teach, maybe we should teach the way they learn."
- Ignacio Nacho Estrada
"Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today."
- Malcolm X, June 28, 1964, Organization of Afro-American Unity
"Educators are the only people who lose sleep over other people's kids."
- Nicholas A. Ferroni
"The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives."
- Robert M. Hutchins
"Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition."
- Jacques Barzun
"If all you do is to give them a faultless and complete and uninhabited architectural masterpiece, then you do not help them to become builders of their own."
- Carl-Gustaf Rossby
"Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself."
- John Dewey
"Being able to help someone learn something is a talent."
- Margaret Riel
"There is a great difference between knowing and understanding: you can know a lot about something and not really understand it."
- Charles Franklin Kettering
"They may forget what you said but they will not forget how you made them feel."
- 'Richard Evans' Quotes Book', Carl Buechner, 1971
"Do not give them a candle to light the way, teach them how to make fire instead. That is the meaning of enlightenment."
- Kamand Kojouri
"Proper teaching is recognized with ease."
- 'Dune', Frank Herbet
"The expert at anything was once a beginner."
- Helen Hayes
"Your work is not to drag the world kicking and screaming into a new awareness. Your job is to simply do your work… sacredly, secretly, silently … and those with eyes to see and ears to hear will respond."
- The Arcturians
"Study without reflection is a waste of time; reflection without study is dangerous."
- Confucius
"The teacher is the heart of the educational system."
- Sidney Hook
Famous Tutor Quotes
Whether a hobby or a job, teachers shape the future minds of the world. The tutor quotes noted below are said by some of the most famous personas in history.
"It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge."
- Albert Einstein
"Teaching is the highest form of understanding."
- Aristotle
"One child, one teacher, one book, one pen can change the world."
- Malala Yousafzai
"Intelligence plus character– that is the goal of true education."
- 'King', Martin Luther King Jr.
"Better than a thousand days of diligent study is one day with a great teacher."
- Japanese Proverb
"Education is not the filling of a pot but the lighting of a fire."
- 'The Dialogues Of Plato', Benjamin Jowett
"Education doesn't just make us smarter. It makes us whole."
- Jill Biden
"If the people remember me as a good teacher, that will be the biggest honor for me."
- APJ Abdul Kalam
"The secret in education lies in respecting the student."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"When educating the minds of our youth, we must not forget to educate their hearts."
- Dalai Lama
"Teaching is only demonstrating that it is possible. Learning is making it possible for yourself."
- Paulo Coelho, November 24, 2016, @paulocoelho
"Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon."
- E.M. Forster, October 7, 1951, The Observer
"Education breeds confidence. Confidence breeds hope. Hope breeds peace."
- Confucius
"If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough."
- Albert Einstein
"A well educated mind will always have more questions than answers."
- Helen Keller
"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind."
- Bernard Mannes Baruch
"He who opens a school door closes a prison."
- Victor Hugo
"I never teach my pupils; I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn."
- Albert Einstein
"The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life."
- 'The Republic', Plato
"Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids to work together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important."
- Bill Gates
"I would teach how science works as much as I would teach what science knows."
- Neil deGrasse Tyson
"There is no failure. Only feedback."
- Robert Allen
"Education is the key to success in life, and teachers make a lasting impact in the lives of their students."
- Solomon Ortiz
"When one teaches, two learn."
- Robert Heinlein
"I was lucky that I met the right mentors and teachers at the right moment."
- James Levine
"A hundred years from now, it will not matter what kind of car I drove, what kind of house I lived in, how much money I had in the bank. But the world may be a better place because I made a difference in the life of a child."
- 'Within My Power', Forest Witcraft
"The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child."
- Carl Gustav Jung
"I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well."
- Alexander The Great
"Children are likely to live up to what you believe of them."
- Lady Bird Johnson
"Teaching is a very noble profession that shapes the character, caliber, and future of the individual."
- APJ Abdul Kalam
"I am not a teacher, but an awakener."
- Robert Frost
"Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler."
- Albert Einstein
"It is not what is poured into the student, but what is planted, that counts."
- Linda Conway
"A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops."
- Henry B. Adams
"The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away."
- Pablo Picasso
"Don't bother to ring a bell in the ear that doesn't listen. Move to another ear, and if he doesn't listen to your bell, sit back and listen to his nemesis."
- Michael Bassey Johnson
"Those who know, do. Those that understand, teach."
- Aristotle
"Your worst enemy is your best teacher."
- Buddha
"Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing."
- Theodore Roosevelt, September 7, 1903, Labor Day Speech
"Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world."
- Nelson Mandela
"Appreciation is a wonderful thing. It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well."
- Voltaire
