Motivational Quotes

Teacher

Never offer to teach a fish to swim.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Teacher

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

Terence

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

Aristotle

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.

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.

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

Baba, Hari Dass

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

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

Teaching is the greatest act of optimism.

Wilcox, Colleen

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

Locke, John

10.

Those who know how to think need no teachers.

Gandhi, Mahatma

11.

He who does not research has nothing to teach.

Proverb

12.

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

Benson, Ezra Taft

13.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

14.

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

Mann, Horace

15.

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

16.

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

17.

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

18.

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

Proverb, German

19.

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

20.

He who dares to teach must never cease to learn.

21.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

22.

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

Blishen, Edward

23.

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

24.

Never offer to teach a fish to swim.

Proverb

25.

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

Twain, Mark

26.

Teaching is of more importance than urging.

Luther, Martin

27.

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

Plato

28.

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

29.

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

Snow, Dan

30.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

31.

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

32.

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

Horace

33.

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

Cowper, William

34.

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

35.

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

Immermann

36.

What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.

Shaw, George Bernard

37.

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

38.

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

Socrates

39.

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

40.

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

41.

In teaching others we teach ourselves.

Proverb

42.

Knowledge exists to be imparted.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

43.

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

44.

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

Canby, Henry S.

45.

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

46.

We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled, but as candles to be lit.

Shaffer, Robert H.

47.

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 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

49.

We will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught.

50.

I am not a teacher, but an awakener.

Frost, Robert