Motivational Quotes

Teacher

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

Best Quotes about Teacher

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

Plato

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

Ballard, M. Russell

I am not a teacher, but an awakener.

Frost, Robert

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

Terence

He who dares to teach must never cease to learn.

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

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

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

Horace

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

Brecht, Bertolt

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

Cowper, William

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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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Teaching is the greatest act of optimism.

Wilcox, Colleen

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

Aristotle

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

Locke, John

24.

Those who know how to think need no teachers.

Gandhi, Mahatma

25.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

26.

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

27.

He who does not research has nothing to teach.

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.

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.

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

31.

To teach is to learn twice.

Joubert, Joseph

32.

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

Benson, Ezra Taft

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

Immermann

34.

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

Blishen, Edward

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

Gibran, Kahlil

37.

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

Barzun, Jacques

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The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.

Doren, Mark Van

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

Canby, Henry S.

41.

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

Givot, George

42.

A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.

Carruthers, Thomas

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Knowledge exists to be imparted.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

44.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

46.

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

Mann, Horace

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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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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