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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Blishen, Edward

To teach is to learn twice.

Joubert, Joseph

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

Baba, Hari Dass

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

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

Those who know how to think need no teachers.

Gandhi, Mahatma

The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.

Doren, Mark Van

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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.

11.

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

Arnold, Thomas

12.

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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Never offer to teach a fish to swim.

Proverb

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

Benson, Ezra Taft

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

Durant, William J.

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Knowledge exists to be imparted.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Brecht, Bertolt

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

Aristotle

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

Ballard, M. Russell

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

21.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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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

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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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A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.

Carruthers, Thomas

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

Barzun, Jacques

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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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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 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

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He who dares to teach must never cease to learn.

30.

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

Givot, George

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

32.

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

Proverb, German

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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

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

Immermann

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

Snow, Dan

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

Gibran, Kahlil

39.

He who does not research has nothing to teach.

Proverb

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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

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

Dalai Lama

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Teaching is the greatest act of optimism.

Wilcox, Colleen

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

Mann, Horace

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I am not a teacher, but an awakener.