Motivational Quotes

Teacher

You can't teach a hunter it's wrong to kill.

- Baba, Hari Dass

Best Quotes about Teacher

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.

He who does not research has nothing to teach.

Proverb

Teaching is of more importance than urging.

Luther, Martin

To teach successfully we must tell all we know, but only what is adaptable to the student.

La Harpe, Frederic-Cesar

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

Harris, Sidney J.

The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.

Doren, Mark Van

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

Locke, John

No one ever teaches well who wants to teach, or governs well who wants to govern.

Plato

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

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A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on a cold iron.

Mann, Horace

11.

The teacher must derive not only the capacity, but the desire, to observe natural phenomena. In our system, she must become a passive, much more than an active, influence, and her passivity shall be composed of anxious scientific curiosity and of absolute respect for the phenomenon which she wishes to observe. The teacher must understand and feel her position of observer: the activity must lie in the phenomenon.

Montessori, Maria

12.

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

13.

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

Shaffer, Robert H.

14.

To know how to suggest is the great art of teaching. To attain it we must be able to guess what will interest; we must learn to read the childish soul as we might a piece of music. Then, by simply changing the key, we keep up the attraction and vary the song.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

15.

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

16.

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

Socrates

17.

A schoolteacher or professor cannot educate individuals, he educates only species.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

18.

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

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

21.

The teacher gives not of his wisdom, but rather of his faith and lovingness.

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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I am not a teacher, but an awakener.

Frost, Robert

24.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

25.

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

Brecht, Bertolt

26.

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

Bagehot, Walter

27.

The secret of teaching is to appear to have known all your life what you just learned this morning.

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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

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Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.

Barzun, Jacques

30.

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

Aristotle

31.

The real difficulty, the difficulty which has baffled the sages of all times, is rather this: how can we make our teaching so potent in the motional life of man, that its influence should withstand the pressure of the elemental psychic forces in the individual?

Einstein, Albert

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

Snow, Dan

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

Terence

34.

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

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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

36.

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

Proverb, German

37.

In teaching others we teach ourselves.

Proverb

38.

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

Immermann

39.

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

Ballard, M. Russell

40.

You can't teach a hunter it's wrong to kill.

Baba, Hari Dass

41.

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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Housework is a breeze. Cooking is a pleasant diversion. Putting up a retaining wall is a lark. But teaching is like climbing a mountain.

Brodie, Fawn M.

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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 raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.

Jung, Carl

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

Givot, George

45.

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

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Teaching is the greatest act of optimism.

Wilcox, Colleen

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

Durant, William J.

48.

To teach is to learn twice.

Joubert, Joseph

49.

Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books.

Lubbock, Sir John

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

Horace