Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Teacher

A schoolmaster should have an atmosphere of awe, and walk wonderingly, as if he was amazed at being himself.

Bagehot, Walter

Never offer to teach a fish to swim.

Proverb

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Immermann

Knowledge exists to be imparted.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

He who dares to teach must never cease to learn.

Teaching is the greatest act of optimism.

Wilcox, Colleen

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

Aristotle

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

12.

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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In teaching others we teach ourselves.

Proverb

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

Blishen, Edward

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

Dalai Lama

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Those who know how to think need no teachers.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Teaching is of more importance than urging.

Luther, Martin

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Snow, Dan

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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To teach is to learn twice.

Joubert, Joseph

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

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

Benson, Ezra Taft

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

Mann, Horace

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

Socrates

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

Brecht, Bertolt

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

Plato

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

Baba, Hari Dass

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

Terence

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

Horace

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