Motivational Quotes

Teacher

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.

Best Quotes about Teacher

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

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

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

Benson, Ezra Taft

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

Socrates

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

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

Immermann

10.

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

Proverb, German

11.

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

Durant, William J.

12.

To teach is to learn twice.

Joubert, Joseph

13.

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

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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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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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Teaching is the greatest act of optimism.

Wilcox, Colleen

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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

18.

Never offer to teach a fish to swim.

Proverb

19.

A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.

Carruthers, Thomas

20.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

21.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

22.

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

Twain, Mark

23.

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

Blishen, Edward

25.

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

Horace

27.

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

Aristotle

28.

In teaching others we teach ourselves.

Proverb

29.

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

30.

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

31.

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

Ballard, M. Russell

32.

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

33.

Those who know how to think need no teachers.

Gandhi, Mahatma

34.

I am not a teacher, but an awakener.

Frost, Robert

35.

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

Givot, George

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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.

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

Mann, Horace

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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

40.

He who does not research has nothing to teach.

Proverb

41.

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

42.

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

Snow, Dan

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

Harris, Sidney J.

46.

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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Teaching is of more importance than urging.

Luther, Martin

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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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The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.

Doren, Mark Van

50.

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