INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES ACTIVITY
Select 4 quotes from the provided list. Following the quote, write a one-paragraph
reflection on how this quote inspires your teaching. (150 words min. per response)
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“A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.”
–Henry Adams
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“Teaching is more a giving of right questions than a giving of right answers.”
–Josef Albers
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“You can’t direct the wind, but you can adjust the sails.”
–Anonymous
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“We think of the effective teachers we have had over the years with a sense of
recognition, but those who have touched our humanity we remember with a deep sense
of gratitude.”
–Anonymous
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“The job of an educator is to teach students to see the vitality in themselves.”
–Joseph Campbell
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“It is enough to open minds, do not overload them. Put there just a spark.”
–Anatole France
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“An education isn’t how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you
know. It’s being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don’t.”
–Anatole France
“Memory is the link to the past. But for the sake of the future, memory is for Jew as air
for the human being.”
--Elie Wiesel
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“A teacher must believe in the value and interest of his subject as a doctor believes in
health.”
–Gilbert Highet
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“To teach is to learn twice.”
–Joseph Joubert, Pensées, 1842
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“One must learn by doing the thing, for though you think you know it, you have no
certainty until you try.”
–Sophocles
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“A person’s every act begins with a dream and ends with one.”
–Theodor Herzl
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“The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without a teacher.”
–Elbert Hubbard
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“The parent brings the child into the life of this world, whereas the teacher, who teaches
him wisdom, brings him into the life of the world to come.”
–Talmud, Baba Metziah 33a
“Everyone can raise himself, but only by his actions.”
--Rabbi Nachman of Breslov
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“In teaching, you cannot see the fruit of a day’s work. It is invisible and remains so,
maybe for twenty years.”
–Jacques Barzun
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“If you are planning for a year, sow rice; if you are planning for a decade, plant trees; if
you are planning for a lifetime, educate people.”
–Chinese Proverb
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“Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school.”
–Albert Einstein
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“Education without vision is like a present without a future.”
–P. Shifman
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“The advancement of learning is the highest commandment.”
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“The real gaurdians of a state are the teachers.”
–Maimonides
--Tamlud
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“What we need more than anything else is not textbooks but text people. It is the
personality of the teacher which is the text that the pupils read; the text they will never
forget…”
–Abraham Joshua Heschel
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“Educate children in the way they should go, and even when they are old, they will not
depart from it.”
–Proverbs 22:6
“Make for yourself a teacher; acquire for yourself a friend.”
--Pirkei Avot
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“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world.
Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.”
–Margaret Mead
“Education is not a product: makrs, diploma, job, money—in that order; it is a process, a
never-ending one.”
--Kaufman
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“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
–Mahatma Ghandi
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“The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil.”
―Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“Shammai taught: make a fixed time for study; say little and do much; and greet each
person with a cheerful face.”
--Pirkei Avot
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“The principle goal of education in the schools should be creating men and women who
are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done;
men and women who are creative, inventive and discoverers, who can be critical and
verify, and not accept, everything they are offered.”
―Jean Piaget
“One who is engaged in attending to the needs of the community is just like one who is
engaged in Torah study.”
Anonymous
“Whoever teaches his son teaches not only his son but also his son’s sson and so on to
the end of generations.”
--Talmud
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