Motivational Quotes

Teacher

Life is amazing: and the teacher had better prepare himself to be a medium for that amazement.

- Blishen, Edward

Best Quotes about Teacher

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

La Harpe, Frederic-Cesar

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

Immermann

The man who can make hard things easy is the educator.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Knowledge exists to be imparted.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-distrust. He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him. He will have no disciple.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each.

Plato

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

10.

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

11.

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

Mann, Horace

12.

In teaching others we teach ourselves.

Proverb

13.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

14.

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

Givot, George

15.

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

Proverb, German

16.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

18.

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.

19.

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

Baba, Hari Dass

20.

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

Harris, Sidney J.

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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

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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

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

Horace

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

Socrates

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

Brecht, Bertolt

26.

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

Arnold, Thomas

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The first duty of a lecturer is to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up between the pages of your notebooks and keep on the mantelpiece forever.

Woolf, Virginia

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A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.

Carruthers, Thomas

29.

To teach is to learn twice.

Joubert, Joseph

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The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.

Doren, Mark Van

31.

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

Snow, Dan

32.

Teaching is of more importance than urging.

Luther, Martin

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Life is amazing: and the teacher had better prepare himself to be a medium for that amazement.

Blishen, Edward

34.

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

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

Terence

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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

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

Einstein, Albert

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

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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

40.

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

Aristotle

41.

Teaching isn't one-tenth as effective as training.

Mann, Horace

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Teaching is the greatest act of optimism.

Wilcox, Colleen

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

Benson, Ezra Taft

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

Gibran, Kahlil

45.

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

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

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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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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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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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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