Motivational Quotes

Teacher

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

- Plato

Best Quotes about Teacher

To teach is to learn twice.

Joubert, Joseph

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

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

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

Mann, Horace

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

Canby, Henry S.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Cowper, William

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

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

Dalai Lama

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He who dares to teach must never cease to learn.

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

Snow, Dan

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Never offer to teach a fish to swim.

Proverb

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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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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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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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I am not a teacher, but an awakener.

Frost, Robert

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

Immermann

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

Locke, John

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He who does not research has nothing to teach.

Proverb

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

Benson, Ezra Taft

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

Einstein, Albert

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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 man who can make hard things easy is the educator.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Blishen, Edward

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Those who know how to think need no teachers.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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

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

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

Terence

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

Durant, William J.

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In teaching others we teach ourselves.