Motivational Quotes

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.

Best Quotes about Teacher

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

Givot, George

He who does not research has nothing to teach.

Proverb

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

To teach is to learn twice.

Joubert, Joseph

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

Bagehot, Walter

A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on a cold iron.

Mann, Horace

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

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

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

10.

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

11.

We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled, but as candles to be lit.

Shaffer, Robert H.

12.

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

Twain, Mark

14.

The teacher is one who makes two ideas grow where only one grew before.

Hubbard, Elbert

15.

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

17.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

18.

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

Snow, Dan

19.

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

20.

Knowledge exists to be imparted.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

21.

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

Baba, Hari Dass

22.

Never offer to teach a fish to swim.

Proverb

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

Benson, Ezra Taft

25.

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

Ballard, M. Russell

26.

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

Dalai Lama

27.

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

28.

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

Proverb, German

29.

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

30.

Those who know how to think need no teachers.

Gandhi, Mahatma

31.

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

32.

I am not a teacher, but an awakener.

Frost, Robert

33.

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

34.

No one ever teaches well who wants to teach, or governs well who wants to govern.

Plato

35.

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

Terence

36.

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

Aristotle

37.

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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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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What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.

Shaw, George Bernard

40.

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

La Harpe, Frederic-Cesar

41.

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

Harris, Sidney J.

42.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

43.

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

44.

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

45.

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

Locke, John

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

Mann, Horace

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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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Teaching is the greatest act of optimism.

Wilcox, Colleen