Motivational Quotes

Teacher

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

Best Quotes about Teacher

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

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

Bagehot, Walter

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.

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

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

Plato

Those who know how to think need no teachers.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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 isn't one-tenth as effective as training.

Mann, Horace

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Terence

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

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

Aristotle

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

Immermann

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He who dares to teach must never cease to learn.

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A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.

Carruthers, Thomas

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

Baba, Hari Dass

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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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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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Never offer to teach a fish to swim.

Proverb

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

Einstein, Albert

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Teaching is the greatest act of optimism.

Wilcox, Colleen

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Einstein, Albert

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

Horace

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

Socrates

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Barzun, Jacques

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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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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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To teach is to learn twice.

Joubert, Joseph

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