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