Motivational Quotes

Teacher

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

Best Quotes about Teacher

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.

I am not a teacher, but an awakener.

Frost, Robert

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

Baba, Hari Dass

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

The schoolmaster is abroad! And I trust to him armed with his primer against the soldier in full military array.

Bentham, Jeremy

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

Harris, Sidney J.

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

Proverb, German

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 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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The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.

Doren, Mark Van

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

Horace

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Aristotle

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In teaching others we teach ourselves.

Proverb

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

Brecht, Bertolt

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

Durant, William J.

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

Snow, Dan

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

Blishen, Edward

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Hippocrates

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

Immermann

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

Twain, Mark

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

Socrates

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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Once more I would adopt the graver style -- a teacher should be sparing of his smile.

Cowper, William

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He who dares to teach must never cease to learn.

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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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Those who know how to think need no teachers.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Teaching is of more importance than urging.

Luther, Martin

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

Locke, John

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To teach is to learn twice.

Joubert, Joseph

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

Barzun, Jacques

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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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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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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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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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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 isn't one-tenth as effective as training.

Mann, Horace