Motivational Quotes

Teacher

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

Best Quotes about 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

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

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

Baba, Hari Dass

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

Mann, Horace

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

Cowper, William

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

Teaching is the greatest act of optimism.

Wilcox, Colleen

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.

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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He who dares to teach must never cease to learn.

11.

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

Aristotle

13.

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

Snow, Dan

14.

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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To teach is to learn twice.

Joubert, Joseph

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

18.

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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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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He who does not research has nothing to teach.

Proverb

21.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Givot, George

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

Locke, John

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

Benson, Ezra Taft

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

Socrates

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

Durant, William J.

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

Proverb, German

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A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.

Carruthers, Thomas

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

Ballard, M. Russell

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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.