Motivational Quotes

Teacher

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

- Immermann

Best Quotes about Teacher

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

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

Immermann

He who does not research has nothing to teach.

Proverb

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

Blishen, Edward

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

Bagehot, Walter

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Socrates

The highest function of the teacher consists not so much in imparting knowledge as in stimulating the pupil in its love and pursuit.

He who dares to teach must never cease to learn.

10.

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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In teaching others we teach ourselves.

Proverb

12.

Teaching is of more importance than urging.

Luther, Martin

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.

Doren, Mark Van

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

Proverb, German

21.

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

Mann, Horace

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Teaching is the greatest act of optimism.

Wilcox, Colleen

25.

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

Snow, Dan

26.

To teach is to learn twice.

Joubert, Joseph

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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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The secret of teaching is to appear to have known all your life what you just learned this morning.

29.

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

Cowper, William

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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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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

32.

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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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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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 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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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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Knowledge exists to be imparted.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Dalai Lama

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

Durant, William J.

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

Locke, John

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

Baba, Hari Dass

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A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.

Carruthers, Thomas

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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 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.

49.

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

Benson, Ezra Taft