Motivational Quotes

Teacher

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

- Brecht, Bertolt

Best Quotes about Teacher

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

A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.

Carruthers, Thomas

I am not a teacher, but an awakener.

Frost, Robert

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

Immermann

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

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

Socrates

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

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

10.

Teaching is of more importance than urging.

Luther, Martin

11.

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

12.

To teach is to learn twice.

Joubert, Joseph

13.

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

Snow, Dan

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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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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

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

Durant, William J.

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

Shaffer, Robert H.

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

Twain, Mark

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

La Harpe, Frederic-Cesar

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Teaching is the greatest act of optimism.

Wilcox, Colleen

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

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

Aristotle

27.

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

Canby, Henry S.

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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.

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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

30.

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

Locke, John

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

Terence

32.

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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Knowledge exists to be imparted.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

34.

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

Horace

35.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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In teaching others we teach ourselves.

Proverb

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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He who does not research has nothing to teach.

Proverb

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

Baba, Hari Dass

41.

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

Mann, Horace

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

Proverb, German

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

Dalai Lama

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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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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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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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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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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.