Motivational Quotes

Teacher

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

- Harris, Sidney J.

Best Quotes about Teacher

A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.

Carruthers, Thomas

Never offer to teach a fish to swim.

Proverb

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

Barzun, Jacques

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.

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

Givot, George

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

Horace

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

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

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

Dalai Lama

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

Snow, Dan

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

Aristotle

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Teaching is the greatest act of optimism.

Wilcox, Colleen

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

Terence

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

Baba, Hari Dass

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

Socrates

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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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The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.

Doren, Mark Van

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

Proverb, German

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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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Teaching is of more importance than urging.

Luther, Martin

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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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I am not a teacher, but an awakener.

Frost, Robert

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Einstein, Albert

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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

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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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 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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To teach is to learn twice.

Joubert, Joseph

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

Durant, William J.

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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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In teaching others we teach ourselves.

Proverb

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

Twain, Mark

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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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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