Motivational Quotes

Teacher

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

- Dalai Lama

Best Quotes about Teacher

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

Durant, William J.

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

Einstein, Albert

In teaching others we teach ourselves.

Proverb

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

Horace

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

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

Those who know how to think need no teachers.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

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 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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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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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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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

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

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

Harris, Sidney J.

21.

To teach is to learn twice.

Joubert, Joseph

22.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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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.

24.

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

Locke, John

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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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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

28.

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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Knowledge exists to be imparted.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Bagehot, Walter

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Proverb, German

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

Terence

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Dalai Lama

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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.

41.

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

Cowper, William

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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.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.

Carruthers, Thomas

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

Aristotle

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

Socrates

48.

Never offer to teach a fish to swim.

Proverb

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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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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