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

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

Baba, Hari Dass

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.

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

Mann, Horace

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

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

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

Dalai Lama

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

Shaffer, Robert H.

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

Twain, Mark

10.

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

11.

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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Once more I would adopt the graver style -- a teacher should be sparing of his smile.

Cowper, William

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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

14.

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

15.

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

16.

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

Terence

17.

He who does not research has nothing to teach.

Proverb

18.

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

Brecht, Bertolt

19.

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

20.

He who dares to teach must never cease to learn.

21.

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.

22.

I am not a teacher, but an awakener.

Frost, Robert

23.

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

Arnold, Thomas

24.

The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.

Doren, Mark Van

25.

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

Mann, Horace

26.

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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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

28.

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

Bentham, Jeremy

29.

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

Givot, George

30.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

31.

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

Locke, John

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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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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

34.

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

Plato

35.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

36.

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

37.

Knowledge exists to be imparted.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

38.

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Socrates

40.

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

42.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

43.

Teaching is of more importance than urging.

Luther, Martin

44.

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

Barzun, Jacques

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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.

48.

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

Benson, Ezra Taft

49.

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

50.

To teach is to learn twice.

Joubert, Joseph