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

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

Barzun, Jacques

To teach successfully we must tell all we know, but only what is adaptable to the student.

La Harpe, Frederic-Cesar

Teaching is the greatest act of optimism.

Wilcox, Colleen

My object will be, if possible, to form Christian men, for Christian boys I can scarcely hope to make.

Arnold, Thomas

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

Blishen, Edward

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

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

Givot, George

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

To teach is to learn twice.

Joubert, Joseph

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

Benson, Ezra Taft

11.

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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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 easier for a tutor to command than to teach.

Locke, John

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

Twain, Mark

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Never offer to teach a fish to swim.

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

Snow, Dan

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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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Teaching is of more importance than urging.

Luther, Martin

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

Ballard, M. Russell

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

Terence

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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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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 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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Hippocrates

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

Dalai Lama

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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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The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.

Doren, Mark Van

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

Proverb, German

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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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I am not a teacher, but an awakener.

Frost, Robert

41.

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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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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In teaching others we teach ourselves.

Proverb

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He who does not research has nothing to teach.

Proverb

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

Aristotle

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