Top 100 Educator Quotes
#1. The materialist doctrine that men are products of circumstances and upbringing, and that, therefore, changed men are products of other circumstances and changed upbrinding, forgets that it is men that change circumstances and that the educator himself needs educating.
Karl Marx
#2. Educator Norman Lamm said, In Judaism, there are 613 biblical commandments, and the Talmud says that the chief commandment of all is study.
H.W. Charles
#4. As she nurtured her business relationships, Hall spent less time meeting teachers and parents and visiting schools. Often, she seemed to approach her job more as a CEO than an educator.
Anonymous
#5. The function of the educator is to discover in each individual child the gifts implanted in her by Almighty God and to develop and dedicate them to His service.
Elizabeth Goudge
#6. The child is truly a miraculous being, and this should be felt deeply by the educator.
Maria Montessori
#7. As a sculptor sculpts a statue, an educator educates our future generation. Beauty depends on the creator.
Debasish Mridha
#8. Now I can look back and say I actually like the upbringing I had and my father was very attentive and a great educator.
Anthony Kiedis
#9. As a doctor, an educator, an innovator and someone who has dedicated his professional career to making things work better and to helping people - I am ready to lead.
Donald Berwick
#10. From the child itself he will learn how to perfect himself as an educator.
Maria Montessori
#11. Now, what really makes a teacher is love for the human child; for it is love that transforms the social duty of the educator into the higher consciousness of a mission.
Maria Montessori
#12. The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.
C.S. Lewis
#13. I had a very normal, very typical American childhood. My father worked for the government at the Pentagon and my mother was an educator, so we had a very average upbringing, but that's helped me in my writing because I'm writing about ordinary things.
Jeff Kinney
#14. If our greatest need had been information, God would have sent an educator. If our greatest need had been technology, God would have sent us a scientist. If our greatest need had been money, God would have sent us an economist. But since our greatest need was forgiveness, God sent us a Saviour.
Roy Lessin
#15. There is no profession more essential than that of an educator, and it's time for all of us to embrace and celebrate their importance and contribution to America's children.
Queen Latifah
#16. The educator must believe in the potential power of his pupil, and he must employ all his art in seeking to bring his pupil to experience this power.
Alfred Adler
#17. Defining by a general law the expenditures on the ... school ... is a very different thing from appointing the state as educator of the people. Government and church should rather be equally excluded from any influence on the school.
Karl Marx
#18. The educator should do anything but advise the child to do what everybody does. He should rather rejoice when he sees in the child tendencies to deviation.
Ellen Key
#19. The problem before the educator is to give the child control over his own nature, to enable him to hold himself in hand as much in regard to the traits we call good, as to those we call evil:.
Charlotte Mason
#20. A machine is a great moral educator. If a horse or a donkey won't go, men lose their tempers and beat it; if a machine won't go, there is no use beating it. You have to think and try till you find what is wrong. That is real education.
Gilbert Murray
#21. As an educator myself, I understand the profound effect that good teachers and a quality education have on the lives of our young people.
Ben Bernanke
#22. The schoolteacher is certainly underpaid as a childminder, but ludicrously overpaid as an educator.
John Osborne
#23. The novelist now usurps the chair of the educator, the pulpit of the preacher, the columns of the journalist. Yet his original purpose of entertaining may have been his highest purpose. (introduction to Gladiator, Book League Monthly, 1930)
Philip Wylie
#24. In a manner of speaking. I certainly never want to lose my voice as an educator.
Tim Gunn
#25. The people must know before they can act, and there is no educator to compare with the press.
Ida B. Wells
#26. As an educator, I try to get people to be fundamentally curious and to question ideas that they might have or that are shared by others. In that state of mind, they have earned a kind of inoculation against the fuzzy thinking of these weird ideas floating around out there.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#27. Every good educator knows that true teaching is to teach kids how to ask the right questions.
Utah Phillips
#28. As a retired educator I have seen first-hand the impact a great education can have on a young person's life. I will always be a champion for public schools, our teachers, and our children.
Alma Adams
#29. An educator in a system of oppression is either a revolutionary or an oppressor.
Lerone Bennett Jr.
#31. The normal school should provide for the training of the educator to make him realize that his is a twofold job: education as a teacher and education as a propagandist.
Edward Bernays
#32. The most worthwhile form of education is the kind that puts the educator inside you, as it were, so that the appetite for learning persists long after the external pressure for grades and degrees has vanished. Otherwise you are not educated; you are merely trained.
Sydney J. Harris
#33. I cannot join the space program and restart my life as an astronaut, but this opportunity to connect my abilities as an educator with my interests in history and space is a unique opportunity to fulfill my early fantasies.
Christa McAuliffe
#34. I'm on a Mission, that niggaz say is Impossible,
But when I swing my swords they all choppable,
I be the body dropper, the heartbeat stopper,
Child educator, plus head amputator.
GZA
#35. As I've gotten older, my mannerisms are more and more like my mom's. Also, she was an educator - she's extremely passionate about education and children. I guess I inherited that in some way.
Jenna Bush
#36. A jazz musician is a combination orator, dialectician, mathematician, athlete, entertainer, poet, singer, dancer, diplomat, educator, student, comedian, artist, seducer, public masturbator, and general all-round good fellow.
Steve Lacy
#37. If you're an educator, caregiver, or parent, and you find yourself unable to contain your anger with kids, please consider getting professional help. Excessive harshness, whether it's emotional or physical in nature, can cause lasting harm to children.
Laura L. Smith
#38. My investment of time, as an educator, in my judgment, is best served teaching people how to think about the world around them. Teach them how to pose a question. How to judge whether one thing is true versus the other.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#39. As lower-cost phones begin to penetrate, they'll become the educator and physician everywhere on the planet.
Peter Diamandis
#40. Experiences in order to be educative must lead out into an expanding world of subject matter, a subject matter of facts or information and of ideas. This condition is satisfied only as the educator views teaching and learning as a continuous process of reconstruction of experience.
John Dewey
#41. Universities simply unable to play judge, jury and executioner when they're already having trouble playing educator. Resources are limited and colleges must put their focus on their primary objective: education.
Claire McCaskill
#42. As technology breaks down the physical barriers of college campuses, the extraordinary intellectual capital of the educator community is becoming available to anyone committed to learning - regardless of age, income or location.
Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen
#43. When I was growing up, my house was filled with books. My mother was an educator, and my father was a history buff, so our home was a virtual library, covering every author from Beverly Cleary to James Michener.
Jeff Kinney
#44. I learned that unemployment can be the great educator.
David Caruso
#46. Statesman create; ordinary leaders consume. The ordinary leader is satisfied with ameliorating the environment, not transforming it; a statesman must be a visionary and an educator.
Henry A. Kissinger
#47. It is ok to be a teacher but it is great to be an educator.
Debasish Mridha
#48. Useful learning needs to begin where the student is at that time and then builds on what that person knows. The biggest challenge to an educator is what to forgo from the 'old' curriculum in favour of something more relevant. Then
David Loader
#49. However, as a parent, as a grandparent, as a former educator, I know that these practices alone when we are dealing with young children are insufficient. We will never control this rising epidemic without greater accountability from the food industry.
Bob Filner
#50. Be an educator, bloom like a flower, be a philosopher.
Debasish Mridha
#51. An educator ... a good one that is, inspires others to be even better than herself.
Jill Telford
#52. Today's reporter is forced to become an educator more concerned with explaining the news than with being first on the scene.
Fred W. Friendly
#53. The first duty of the educator, whether he is involved with the newborn infant or the older child, is to recognize the human personality of the young being and respect it.
Maria Montessori
#54. Dan Spainhour is a terrific coach and educator. I had the pleasure of working several years with him, and I know that his knowledge and enthusiasm are first-rate.
Tommy Amaker
#55. How can I be an educator if I do not develop in myself a caring and loving attitude toward the student, which is indispensable on the part of one who is committed to teaching and to the education process itself.
Paulo Freire
#56. Rejection is a gift and failure is the best educator, so when someone knocks you down, get back up!
Kathy Ireland
#57. Miss Kirwin was that rare educator who was in love with information. I will always believe that her love of teaching came not so much from her liking for students but from her desire to make sure that some of the things she knew would find repositories so that they could be shared again.
Maya Angelou
#58. I'm not an educator ... I'm a learner.
Bill Gates
#59. To aid life, leaving it free, however, that is the basic task of the educator.
Maria Montessori
#60. The important thing for me as an educator is how to - how do we unsettle the minds and touch the souls of significant numbers of young people who don't read texts or don't read my texts.
Cornel West
#61. Life seemed to be an educator's practical joke in which you spent the first half learning and the second half learning that everything you learned in the first half was wrong.
Russell Baker
#63. I spent nearly two decades as a social worker and an educator with kids. So, my whole life has been about helping middle-class families. So it's just kind of a hollow argument to say I'm not a family person.
Kyrsten Sinema
#64. The educator must above all understand how to wait; to reckon all effects in the light of the future, not of the present.
Ellen Key
#65. I see bright kids trapped in public schools that are just warehousing them. As an educator this makes me scared. As Secretary of State, this makes me terrified.
Maria Shriver
#66. I have always been a fixer. I am a fixer. I like problems, and I like puzzles, and I like to help people, so I have been a fixer, and I have always been an educator.
Tabatha Coffey
#67. [Nineteenth century American educator] Catharine Beecher is really associated with the idea that a mother works with children in the home and a teacher works with children at school, and that therefore women are almost biologically predisposed to do this job.
Dana Goldstein
#68. If you only think of me during Black History Month, I must be failing as an educator and as an astrophysicist.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#69. The task of the educator lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility and evil with activity.
Maria Montessori
#70. It's always gratifying to hear from a passionate reader, and as a longtime educator, I'm especially pleased and heartened when that reader is a young student who is inspired to write me and let me know that my book has helped him or her find her way.
Julia Alvarez
#71. The educator and the public need to have an opportunity to discuss why certain art is important.
David Elliott
#72. The educator wants the child to be finished at once and perfect. He forces upon the child an unnatural degree of self-mastery, a devotion to duty, a sense of honour - habits that adults get out of with astonishing rapidity.
Ellen Key
#73. Of course I'm totally biased, but I think my mom is an amazing educator. She continues to work tirelessly for the kids in her classes, year after year - despite the innumerable obstacles she faces. She is a huge inspiration to me.
Kandyse McClure
#74. The artist is an educator of artists of the future who are able to understand and in the process of understanding perform unexpected - the best - evolutions.
Saul Steinberg
#75. A true Educator locates the intelligence and abilities within another, drawing them out for all, even the student, to see. And then steps out of the way, allowing them to develop, create and pursue their talent.
L. Ron Hubbard
#76. Just as you learn from a teacher, so you can observe and learn from the educator we call nature.
Debasish Mridha
#77. The best gift an educator can give, to get somebody to become self-reflective.
Randy Pausch
#78. An educator will teach the students. An Educarer will reach the students.
Tanya R. Liverman
#79. Until you have done something for humanity," wrote the great American educator Horace Mann, "you should be ashamed to die.
Christopher Hitchens
#80. As an educator, I think educators should meet the people wherever they are. Don't even ask them to come half-way. Find them where they are, and sit on a couch with them.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#81. The educator shall help the young to educate themselves in opposition to the age.
Georg Brandes
#83. The role of the problem-posing educator is to create, together with the students, the conditions under which knowledge at the level of the doxa is superseded by true knowledge, at the level of the logos.
Paulo Freire
#84. When you wanted me to spend my afternoons sunbathing on the Lake instead of doing my work, I gladly gave in and became a bronzed glamor boy for your sake, instead of remaining a scholar and, well, an educator.
Vladimir Nabokov
#85. To my knowledge, no progressive educator has ever suggested that children didn't need to know the "mere facts" about the contributions of African Americans to our society.
Sol Stern
#86. I don't like trying to influence politicians, who are themselves representative of huge numbers of people. As an educator, I'd rather enlighten the people and educate the people and let they be the ones who put the pressure on their elected officials.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#87. I always try to get people a different outlook. When you do that, people take ownership of the information. They don't ever have to reference me because, I'd like to believe as an educator, I'm empowering them to have those thoughts themselves.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#88. I'm not quite pompous enough to think of myself as an educator or a man capable of definitive refutation of falsehoods.
John Shirley
#89. A child is a person in whom all possibilities are present - present now at this very moment - not to be educed after many years and efforts manifold on the part of the educator
Charlotte Mason
#90. The task of the educator is to make the child's spirit pass again where its forefathers have gone, moving rapidly through certain stages but suppressing none of them. In this regard, the history of science must be our guide.
Henri Poincare
#91. Texas is a national leader in education reform and student achievement. Through our college- and career-ready standards and assessments, strong school accountability, and a focus on educator development, we have created an education system that prepares our students for success after graduation.
Rick Perry
#92. The Biblical educator must not only have a Christian understanding of the material, he must have a Biblical understanding of the student. If he does not, then the result will be a hybrid Christian methodology employed to achieve a humanistic goal.
Douglas Wilson
#93. You see, my Apple loyalty started early, for no reason other than the fact that my mother is a teacher, and grade schools back then seemed to be stocked almost exclusively with Apples - we bought this second computer with my mother's educator discount.
Justine Ezarik
#94. To stimulate life, leaving it free, however, to unfold itself
that is the first duty of the educator.
Maria Montessori
#95. Baum (Writer of THE WONDERFUL WIZARD OF OZ) was a true educator, and those who read his Oz books are often made what they were not-imaginative , tolerant, alert to wonders, life.
Gore Vidal
#96. Having been an educator for so many years I know that all a good teacher can do is set a context, raise questions or enter into a kind of a dialogic relationship with their students.
Godfrey Reggio
#97. As an educator, I have always striven to see that the fruits of the American Dream are available to all.
James D. Watson
#98. Education, and I regret to say this as an educator, but there's no indication that education has a direct effect on happiness.
Derek Bok
#100. It has been well said that an effective leader must know the meaning and master the technique of the educator.
Philip Selznick
