Quotes About Education and Success

Quotes About Education and Success

“That best academy, a mother’s knee.”– James Russell Lowell

“I think our job as parents is to give our kids roots to grow and wings to fly.”– Deborah Norville

“There is no school equal to a decent home and no teacher equal to a virtuous parent.”– Mahatma Gandhi

“Being a mother has been my greatest teacher and also the most self-sacrificing thing I’ve ever done.”– Katey Sagal

“Don’t worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.”– Robert Fulghum

“You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room.”– Dr. Seuss

“If you don’t feel safe as a child, you can’t learn.”– Lady Gaga

“The more certain kids are that someone’s got their back, the more confident and autonomous they can be.”– Melinda Wenner Moyer

“Don’t limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.”– Rabindranath Tagore

“It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.”– Maya Angelou

“My parents encouraged thought. You’ll get through life better if you learn how to think.”– Holly Near

“I believe that a parent’s role is to provide a path or opportunity for their children.”– David Soul

“It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.”– Frederick Douglass

“The best way to make children good is to make them happy.”– Oscar Wilde

“Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.”– Lady Bird Johnson

“Education… is painful, continual and difficult work to be done in kindness, by watching, by warning, by praise, but above all -- by example.”– John Ruskin

At the heart of education lies the most important person in the educational world: the teacher.

A good teacher can change a student’s life far out of proportion to the amount of time they spend in their lives. Of course, A bad teacher can do the same, in a negative way. But fortunately, there are far more good teachers out there than bad ones.

The teacher quotes below are in honor of all the good teachers out there and for all the good they have done for students past, present and into the future.