People from many cultures and since, at least, ancient times have been saying inspiring things about teaching and learning. These quotes can remind us what we are really doing.
“Work is love made visible.” Kahlil Gibran
“How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a weary world.”William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”
“The principal 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.” Jean Piaget
“If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up people together to collect wood and don’t assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.” Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
“We never know which lives we influence, or when, or why.” Stephen King
“Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality.” Dalai Lama
“ Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.” John Dewey
“Those who know, do. Those who understand, teach.” Aristotle
“The best thing for being sad,” replied Merlin, beginning to puff and blow, “is to learn something. That’s the only thing that never fails. You may grow old and trembling in your anatomies, you may lie awake at night listening to the disorder of your veins, you may miss your only love, you may see the world about you devastated by evil lunatics, or know your honour trampled in the sewers of baser minds. There is only one thing for it then — to learn. Learn why the world wags and what wags it. That is the only thing, which the mind can never exhaust, never alienate, never be tortured by, never fear or distrust, and never dream of regretting. Learning is the only thing for you. Look what a lot of things there are to learn.” T.H. White, The Once and Future King