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

He who does not research has nothing to teach.

Proverb

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

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

Canby, Henry S.

In teaching others we teach ourselves.

Proverb

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Horace

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

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

Baba, Hari Dass

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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

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.

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

13.

Never offer to teach a fish to swim.

Proverb

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

Cowper, William

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To teach is to learn twice.

Joubert, Joseph

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

Durant, William J.

20.

He who dares to teach must never cease to learn.

21.

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

Plato

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

Aristotle

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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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Teaching is the greatest act of optimism.

Wilcox, Colleen

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

Brecht, Bertolt

26.

I am not a teacher, but an awakener.

Frost, Robert

27.

Those who know how to think need no teachers.

Gandhi, Mahatma

28.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

30.

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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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.

32.

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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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

34.

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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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 schoolmaster is abroad! And I trust to him armed with his primer against the soldier in full military array.

Bentham, Jeremy

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The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.

Doren, Mark Van

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

41.

Teaching is of more importance than urging.

Luther, Martin

42.

Knowledge exists to be imparted.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Terence

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

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

Givot, George

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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.

49.

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

Dalai Lama