Motivational Quotes

Teacher

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

- Dalai Lama

Best Quotes about Teacher

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

Twain, Mark

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

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

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

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

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

Arnold, Thomas

Teaching is of more importance than urging.

Luther, Martin

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

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

Barzun, Jacques

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

Horace

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

Snow, Dan

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

Terence

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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

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

Aristotle

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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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He who does not research has nothing to teach.

Proverb

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

Proverb, German

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

Durant, William J.

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

Immermann

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Dalai Lama

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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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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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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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He who dares to teach must never cease to learn.

35.

Those who know how to think need no teachers.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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

37.

In teaching others we teach ourselves.

Proverb

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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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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

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

Locke, John

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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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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To teach is to learn twice.

Joubert, Joseph

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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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The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.

Doren, Mark Van

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Teaching is the greatest act of optimism.

Wilcox, Colleen

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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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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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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