Motivational Quotes

Teacher

Teaching is of more importance than urging.

- Luther, Martin

Best Quotes about Teacher

He who dares to teach must never cease to learn.

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

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

Twain, Mark

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

Dalai Lama

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

Baba, Hari Dass

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

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

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.

Einstein, Albert

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

Arnold, Thomas

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

Locke, John

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The world of knowledge takes a crazy turn when teachers themselves are taught to learn.

Brecht, Bertolt

14.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

15.

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

16.

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

Durant, William J.

17.

Arrogance, pedantry, and dogmatism... the occupational diseases of those who spend their lives directing the intellects of the young.

Canby, Henry S.

18.

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

19.

Those who know how to think need no teachers.

Gandhi, Mahatma

20.

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

Socrates

21.

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

22.

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

23.

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

Benson, Ezra Taft

24.

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

La Harpe, Frederic-Cesar

25.

A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.

Carruthers, Thomas

26.

In teaching others we teach ourselves.

Proverb

27.

He who does not research has nothing to teach.

Proverb

28.

The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.

Doren, Mark Van

29.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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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

31.

Teaching is the greatest act of optimism.

Wilcox, Colleen

32.

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

33.

Teaching is of more importance than urging.

Luther, Martin

34.

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

35.

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

Snow, Dan

36.

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

Cowper, William

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

Mann, Horace

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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

39.

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

Barzun, Jacques

40.

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

41.

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

Immermann

42.

To teach is to learn twice.

Joubert, Joseph

43.

Never offer to teach a fish to swim.

Proverb

44.

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

45.

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.

46.

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

47.

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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Knowledge exists to be imparted.