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April Jokes for Teachers

  1. “Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others.” Jonathan Swift
  2. “Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.” Gail Godwin
  3. “I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teachers for living well.” Alexander the Great
  4. April 4th “My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors.” Maya Angelou
  5. “You can’t stop a teacher when they want to do something. They just do it.” J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
  6. “Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.” Aristotle
  7. “Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.” Jacques Barzun
  8. “He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.” Henry Ward Beecher
  9. “The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.” Benjamin Disraeli
  10. “Teachers appreciate being appreciated, for teacher appreciation is their highest award.” William Prince
  11. “If a doctor, lawyer, or dentist had 40 people in his office at one time, all of whom had different needs, and some whom didn’t want to be there and were causing trouble, and the doctor, lawyer, or dentist, without assistance, had to treat them all with professional excellence for nine months, the he might have some conception of the classroom teacher’s job.” Donald D. Quinn
  12. “A teacher’s purpose is not to create students in his own image, but to develop students who can create their own image.” Author Unknown
  13. “Teachers are expected to reach unattainable goals with inadequate tools. The miracle is that at times they accomplish this task.” Haim Ginott
  14. “Personal relationships are the fertile soil from which all advancement, all success, all achievement, in real life grows.” Ben Stein
  15. “Teacher appreciation makes the world of education go around.” Helen Peters
  16. “Mighty things from small beginnings grown.” John Dryden
  17. “Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.”  Plato
  18. Earth Day Quotes:“We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children.” Native American Proverb
  19. Earth Day Quotes: “When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.” John Muir
  20. Earth Day Quotes: “In wilderness is the preservation of the world.” Henry David Thoreau
  21. “The proper use of science is not to conquer nature but to live in it.” Barry Commoner
  22. April 22nd Earth Day Quotes: “The earth is what we all have in common.” Wendell Berry
  23. “It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.” Aristotle

May Jokes for Teachers

  1. May 1st “What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul.” Joseph Addison
  2. May 29th “Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children’s future. And we are all mortal.” John F. Kennedy 

June

  1. June 19th “The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without his teacher.” Elbert Hubbard

October

  1. October 11th “The giving of love is an education in itself.” Eleanor Roosevelt

November

  1. November 7th “We are all special cases.” Albert Camus
  2. “The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.” Eric Hoffer
  3. November 19th “Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained.” James A Garfield

December

  1. December 16th “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtfully committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.” Margaret Mead

February LessonsFebruary  JokesFebruary Hashtags

  1. “A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.” Henry Brooks Adams (February 16, 1838)
  2. “Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom.” George Washington Carver
  3. “A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.” Thomas Carruthers
  4. “I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.” Mark Twain (Top Mark Twain Quotes)
  5. “What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.” George Bernard Shaw
  6. “Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.” Chinese Proverb
  7. “Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.” William James
  8. “Education breeds confidence. Confidence breeds hope. Hope breeds peace.” Confucius
  9. “The more that you read, the more things you will know, the more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.” Dr. Seuss (Top 50 Dr. Seuss Quotes & Dr. Seuss Trivia)
  10. “Teaching is the greatest act of optimism.” Colleen Wilcox
  11. “A master can tell you what he expects of you. A teacher, though, awakens your own expectation.” Chinese Proverb
  12. “I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.” Socrates
  13. “He who dares to teach must never cease to learn.” John Cotton Dana
  14. “Mama always said life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you’re gonna get.” (Top Valentine’s Day JokesTop 365 Quotes for Mothers / National Chocolate Day Jokes)
  15. “Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.” Benjamin Franklin (Ben Franklin Quotes)
  16. “Teach the children so it will not be necessary to teach the adults.” Abraham Lincoln (Top Presidents Day Jokes)
  17. “It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company.” George Washington (Top George Washington Quotes)
  18. “And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you — ask what you can do for your country.” John F. Kennedy (JFK Quotes)
  19. “Don’t pray for an easy life, pray to be a stronger man.” John F. Kennedy (JFK Quotes)
  20. “Children are 1/3rd of our population and all of our future.” Select Panel for the Promotion of Child Health 1981
  21. “I am learning all the time. The tombstone will be my diploma.” Ertha Kitt
  22. “To teach is to learn twice.” Joseph Joubert
  23. “You can teach a student a lesson for a day; but if you can teach him to learn, he will continue the learning process.” Clay P. Bedford
  24. “A master can tell you what he expects of you. A teacher…awakens your own expectations.” Patricia Neal
  25. “The greatest sign of success for a teacher … is to be able to say, ‘The children are now working as if I did not exist’. ” Maria Montessori
  26. “The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.” Mark Van Doren
  27. “The dream begins with a teacher who believes in you… who tugs and pushes and leads you to the next plateau.” Dan Rather
  28. “One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of a child.” Carl Jung (Top Psychology Jokes)

January Lessons / January Jokes / January Hashtags

  1. “A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.” Henry Brooks Adams (Top Education Quotes)
  2. “Education, then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of man.” Horace Mann (Top Horace Mann Quotes)
  3. “Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn.” Benjamin Franklin (Top Ben Franklin Quotes)
  4. “The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character – that is the goal of true education.” Martin Luther King Jr. (Top 50 Martin Luther King Jr. Quotes)
  5. “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” Nelson Mandela (Top Nelson Mandela Quotes)
  6. “The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.” Aristotle
  7. “Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.” B. F. Skinner (Top Psychology Jokes)
  8. January 26th National Compliment Day: “I can live two months on a good compliment.” Mark Twain (Top Mark Twain Quotes)

  9. “The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.”  Mark Twain (Top Mark Twain Quotes)
  10. “Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.” Mahatma Gandhi (Gandhi Quotes)
  11. “Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.” John Dewey
  12. “What a teacher is, is more important than what he teaches.” Karl Menninger
  13. “The best teachers teach from the heart, not from the book.” Unknown
  14. “Example isn’t another way to teach, it is the only way to teach.” Albert Einstein (Top Albert Einstein Quotes)
  15. “Better than a thousand days of diligent study is one day with a great teacher.” Japanese Proverb
  16. “Everybody can be great… because anybody can serve. You don’t have to have a college degree to serve.” Martin Luther King Jr.(Top 50 Martin Luther King Jr. Quotes)
  17. “The time is always right to do the right thing.” Martin Luther King Jr.  (Top 25 Martin Luther King Jr. Quotes)
  18. “I am not a teacher, but an awakener.” Robert Frost
  19. “Think, think, think.” A.A. Milne, Winnie the Pooh (Top 25. A.A. Milne Quotes / Winnie the Pooh Quotes / Winnie the Pooh Jokes)
  20. “There is no friends as loyal as a book.” Ernest Hemingway
  21. “Education is not filling of a pail but the lighting of a fire.” William Butler Yeats
  22. “Every student can learn, just not on the same day, or the same way.” George Evans
  23. “Education’s purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.” Malcolm Forbes
  24. “Man’s mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.” Oliver Wendell Holmes
  25. “What we learn with pleasure we never forget.” Alfred Mercier
  26. “The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life.” Plato
  27. “He who opens a school door, closes a prison.” Victor Hugo
  28. “The secret in education lies in respecting the student.” Ralph Waldo Emerson
  29. “Good teachers are costly, but bad teachers cost more.” Bob Talbert
  30. “The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you.” B.B. King
  31. “The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.” Carl Rogers (Psychology LessonsTop Psychology Jokes)
  32. “Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.” Edward Everett

March

  1. “Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.” Dr. Seuss 
  2. “Don’t cry because it’s over. Smile because it happened.” Dr. Seuss
  3. “Divided, there is little we can do. Together, there is little we cannot do.” John F. Kennedy 
  4. “Teaching should be full of ideas instead of stuffed with facts.” Author Unknown
  5. “Every survival kit should include a sense of humor.” Author Unknown
  6. “The job of a teacher is to teach students to see the vitality in themselves.” Joseph Campbell
  7. “The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.” William Arthur Ward
  8. “Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.” Albert Einstein 
  9. “Teachers who inspire realize there will always be rocks in the road ahead of us.”  Unknown
  10. “If you are planning for a year, sow rice; if you are planning for a decade, plant trees; if you are planning for a lifetime, educate people.” Chinese Proverb
  11. March 14th Albert Einstein’s Birthday: “I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.” 
  12. “We need to understand that every time an elementary teacher captures the imagination of a child through the arts or music of language this nation gets a little stronger.” Richard Riley, former Secretary of Education
  13. “All the world is a laboratory for the inquiring mind.” Martin H. Fischer
  14. “They [rocks] will be stumbling blocks or stepping stones; it all depends on how we use them.” Unknown
  15. “Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or self-confidence.” Robert Frost
  16. “In teaching you cannot see the fruit of a days work. It is invisible and remains so, maybe for 20 years.” Jacques Barzun
  17. “A true teacher is one who, keeping the past alive, is also able to understand the present.” Confucius
  18. “Teaching is leaving a vestige of oneself in the development of another.” Eugene P. Bertin
  19. “The student is a bank where you can deposit your most precious treasures.” Eugene P. Bertin
  20. “A teacher is a compass that activates the magnets of curiosity, knowledge, and wisdom in the pupils.” Ever Garrison
  21. “We expect teachers to handle teen pregnancy, abuse, and failings of the family. Then we expect them to educate our children.” John Sculley
  22. “The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn.“ John Lubbock
  23. “A good teacher is like a candle – it consumes itself to light the the way for others.” Author Unknown
  24. “When you study great teachers… you will learn much more from their caring and hard work than from their style.” William Glasser
  25. “You learn something every day if you pay attention.” Ray LeBlond
  26. “Teachers who inspire know that teaching is like cultivating a garden.” Author Unknown
  27. March 31st National Crayon Day: “Life is about using the whole box of crayons.” RuPaul