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Thank you, Teachers! The Top 5 Best Teacher Quotes from the last 25 Centuries

Today is the start of Teacher Appreciation Week!

To honor all the teachers who have had an impact on us in the past, to honor the present-day teachers who are positively impacting our current generation, and to honor all the future teachers out there, we here at Life Writers LLC have composed a list of our top 5 favorite quotes written for teachers and educators, by teachers and educators.


These timeless “words from the wise” range from the 5th Century B.C. to the present century (21st Century A.D.) – that is over 2,500 years of educating and inspiring the world!
Here are our favorite five sayings from some of the best minds in the past 25 centuries:

#5) “The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.”
Mark Van Doren
(20th Century A.D.)

#4) “I cannot teach anybody anything; I can only make them think.”
Socrates
(5th Century B.C.)

#3) “Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.”
Benjamin Franklin
(18th Century A.D.)

#2) “Education breeds confidence. Confidence breeds hope. Hope breeds peace.”
Confucius
(4th Century B.C.)

1) “If you look behind every exceptional person there is an exceptional teacher.”
Stephen Hawking
(21st Century A.D.)

Thank you to all of you educators, coaches, mentors, teachers, and professors … we, as human beings, would not be where we are today if it weren’t for you all; it is because of you that the “wheels of education, knowledge and progress” keep on turning.

Johnny Wilson
Life Writers LLC
Co-founder, Managing Director, Lead Writer