Motivational Quotes

Teacher

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

- Einstein, Albert

Best Quotes about Teacher

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

Shaw, George Bernard

Knowledge exists to be imparted.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Blishen, Edward

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

Givot, George

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

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

Terence

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

Harris, Sidney J.

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

Mann, Horace

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He who dares to teach must never cease to learn.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Baba, Hari Dass

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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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Teaching is the greatest act of optimism.

Wilcox, Colleen

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

Durant, William J.

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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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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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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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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

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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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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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He who does not research has nothing to teach.

Proverb

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Never offer to teach a fish to swim.

Proverb

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

Socrates

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

34.

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Twain, Mark

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

Immermann

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

Horace

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

Barzun, Jacques

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

Benson, Ezra Taft

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

Brecht, Bertolt

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