In any classroom, it’s not just the students who are there to learn. As a teacher, you can give yourself the opportunity to learn from your class in new and unexpected ways each day. For instance, exploring innovative teaching methods might inspire you to delve into technology and, who knows, even spark the idea to build an educational app⁠(opens in a new tab or window) that enhances the learning experience beyond traditional methods. And remember that your job isn’t just about sharing knowledge. You have the power to spark an interest and desire to learn that extends far beyond books and blackboardsTeaching is conceptual and intellectual, abstract and concrete, creative, and sequential. It’s about people but framed through ideas. It’s about content, hearts, minds, the past, the future–whatever we can imagine, teaching and learning are both causes and effects. With that in mind, we’ve collected some of the more famous quotes about teaching, doing our best to include a wide range of perspectives, cultures, nationalities, races, spiritualities–many of the things that make ‘us’ different, we tried to somehow use to curate the quotes. In that way, some will be familiar, some way will be about formal education, some will be sourced from old proverbs, etc..