Motivational Quotes

Teacher

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

- Locke, John

Best Quotes about Teacher

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

Immermann

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

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

Baba, Hari Dass

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

Durant, William J.

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

Terence

I am not a teacher, but an awakener.

Frost, Robert

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

Blishen, Edward

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Benson, Ezra Taft

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

Snow, Dan

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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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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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Knowledge exists to be imparted.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

19.

Never offer to teach a fish to swim.

Proverb

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Barzun, Jacques

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Socrates

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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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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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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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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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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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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

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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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A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.

Carruthers, Thomas

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He who does not research has nothing to teach.

Proverb

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

Proverb, German

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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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He who dares to teach must never cease to learn.

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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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Teaching is the greatest act of optimism.

Wilcox, Colleen

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

Horace

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

Dalai Lama