Motivational Quotes

Teacher

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

- Brecht, Bertolt

Best Quotes about Teacher

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

Canby, Henry S.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Bentham, Jeremy

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

Horace

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

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

Ballard, M. Russell

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

He who dares to teach must never cease to learn.

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

Blishen, Edward

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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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Teaching is of more importance than urging.

Luther, Martin

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

Terence

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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

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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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To teach is to learn twice.

Joubert, Joseph

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

Socrates

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

Immermann

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

Aristotle

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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.

Frost, Robert

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

Benson, Ezra Taft

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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

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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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The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.

Doren, Mark Van

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

Gibran, Kahlil

29.

Never offer to teach a fish to swim.

Proverb

30.

In teaching others we teach ourselves.

Proverb

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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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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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Those who know how to think need no teachers.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Barzun, Jacques

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

Plato

39.

A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.

Carruthers, Thomas

40.

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

Mann, Horace

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Teaching is the greatest act of optimism.

Wilcox, Colleen

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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He who does not research has nothing to teach.

Proverb

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

Givot, George

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

Dalai Lama

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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