Motivational Quotes

Teacher

The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.

- Aristotle

Best Quotes about Teacher

To teach is to learn twice.

Joubert, Joseph

Teaching is of more importance than urging.

Luther, Martin

He who undertakes to be his own teacher has a fool for a pupil.

Proverb, German

The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.

Doren, Mark Van

Your Master Teacher knows all you need to learn, the perfect timing for your learning it, and the ideal way of teaching it to you. You don't create a Master Teacher -- that's already been done. You discover your Master Teacher.

Mcwilliams, Peter

Morality sticks faster when presented in brief sayings than when presented in long discourse.

Immermann

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.

Einstein, Albert

The teacher is one who makes two ideas grow where only one grew before.

Hubbard, Elbert

Why are we never quite at ease in the presence of a schoolmaster? Because we are conscious that he is not quite at his ease in ours. He is awkward, and out of place in the society of his equals. He comes like Gulliver from among his little people, and he cannot fit the stature of his understanding to yours.

Lamb, Charles

10.

My object will be, if possible, to form Christian men, for Christian boys I can scarcely hope to make.

Arnold, Thomas

11.

It is easier for a tutor to command than to teach.

Locke, John

12.

The truth is that the average schoolmaster, on all the lower levels, is and always must be essentially and next door to an idiot, for how can one imagine an intelligent man engaging in so puerile an avocation?

Mencken, H. L.

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Arrogance, pedantry, and dogmatism... the occupational diseases of those who spend their lives directing the intellects of the young.

Canby, Henry S.

14.

There is no human reason why a child should not admire and emulate his teacher's ability to do sums, rather than the village bum's ability to whittle sticks and smoke cigarettes. The reason why the child does not is plain enough -- the bum has put himself on an equality with him and the teacher has not.

Dell, Floyd

15.

Those who go to college and never get out are called professors.

Givot, George

16.

What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.

Shaw, George Bernard

17.

We will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught.

18.

We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled, but as candles to be lit.

Shaffer, Robert H.

19.

He who dares to teach must never cease to learn.

20.

The world of knowledge takes a crazy turn when teachers themselves are taught to learn.

Brecht, Bertolt

21.

What office is there which involves more responsibility, which requires more qualifications, and which ought, therefore, to be more honorable, than that of teaching?

Martineau, Harriet

22.

The highest function of the teacher consists not so much in imparting knowledge as in stimulating the pupil in its love and pursuit.

23.

I swear... to hold my teacher in this art equal to my own parents; to make him partner in my livelihood; when he is in need of money to share mine with him; to consider his family as my own brothers and to teach them this art, if they want to learn it, without fee or indenture.

Hippocrates

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I believe that every human soul is teaching something to someone nearly every minute here in mortality.

Ballard, M. Russell

25.

A gifted teacher is as rare as a gifted doctor, and makes far less money.

26.

Children should be led into the right paths, not by severity, but by persuasion.

Terence

27.

To teach well, we need not say all that we know, Successful teachers are effective in spite of the psychological theories they suffer under.

Proverb

28.

Never offer to teach a fish to swim.

Proverb

29.

Most subjects at universities are taught for no other purpose than that they may be re-taught when the students become teachers.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

30.

In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.

Dalai Lama

31.

He who does not research has nothing to teach.

Proverb

32.

Lessons of wisdom have the most power over us when they capture the heart through the groundwork of a story, which engages the passions.

Sterne, Laurence

33.

When you introduce a moral lesson, let it be brief.

Horace

34.

Good teaching must be slow enough so that it is not confusing, and fast enough so that it is not boring.

Harris, Sidney J.

35.

Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.

Durant, William J.

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When teaching, light a fire, don't fill a bucket.

Snow, Dan

37.

The schoolmaster is abroad! And I trust to him armed with his primer against the soldier in full military array.

Bentham, Jeremy

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To be good is noble, but to teach others how to be good is nobler and less trouble.

Twain, Mark

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The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.

Aristotle

40.

Those who know how to think need no teachers.

Gandhi, Mahatma

41.

If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed; if in terms of ten years, plant trees; if in terms of 100 years, teach the people.

Confucius

42.

In teaching others we teach ourselves.

Proverb

43.

Unless we do his teachings, we do not demonstrate faith in him.

Benson, Ezra Taft

44.

There is no real teacher who in practice does not believe in the existence of the soul, or in a magic that acts on it through speech.

Bloom, Allan

45.

Knowledge exists to be imparted.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

46.

I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.

Socrates

47.

Once more I would adopt the graver style -- a teacher should be sparing of his smile.

Cowper, William

48.

Whatever you teach, be brief; what is quickly said the mind readily receives and faithfully retains, while everything superfluous runs over as from a full container. Who knows much says least.

Proverb

49.

A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.

Carruthers, Thomas

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A schoolmaster should have an atmosphere of awe, and walk wonderingly, as if he was amazed at being himself.

Bagehot, Walter