Motivational Quotes

Teacher

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

Best Quotes about Teacher

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

Locke, John

A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.

Carruthers, Thomas

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

Brecht, Bertolt

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

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

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

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

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

Givot, George

I am not a teacher, but an awakener.

Frost, Robert

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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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

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Teaching is of more importance than urging.

Luther, Martin

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Teaching is the greatest act of optimism.

Wilcox, Colleen

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Those who know how to think need no teachers.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Immermann

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The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.

Doren, Mark Van

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

Einstein, Albert

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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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We will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught.

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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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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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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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In teaching others we teach ourselves.

Proverb

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

Snow, Dan

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Dell, Floyd

32.

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

Socrates

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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.