Motivational Quotes

Teacher

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

- Shaffer, Robert H.

Best Quotes about Teacher

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

Shaffer, Robert H.

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

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

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

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

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Proverb, German

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

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

Twain, Mark

10.

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

Horace

11.

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

12.

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

13.

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

Mann, Horace

14.

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

Bentham, Jeremy

15.

To teach well, we need not say all that we know, Successful teachers are effective in spite of the psychological theories they suffer under.

Proverb

16.

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

Canby, Henry S.

17.

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

Einstein, Albert

18.

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.

19.

The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.

Doren, Mark Van

20.

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

Brecht, Bertolt

21.

A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.

Carruthers, Thomas

22.

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

23.

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

Terence

24.

Teaching is the greatest act of optimism.

Wilcox, Colleen

25.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

26.

Teaching is of more importance than urging.

Luther, Martin

27.

He who does not research has nothing to teach.

Proverb

28.

I am not a teacher, but an awakener.

Frost, Robert

29.

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

Cowper, William

30.

In teaching others we teach ourselves.

Proverb

31.

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

Socrates

32.

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

33.

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

34.

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

La Harpe, Frederic-Cesar

35.

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

36.

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

Blishen, Edward

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.

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

Aristotle

39.

Good teaching must be slow enough so that it is not confusing, and fast enough so that it is not boring.

Harris, Sidney J.

40.

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

Immermann

41.

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

Durant, William J.

42.

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

Givot, George

43.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

44.

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

Baba, Hari Dass

45.

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

46.

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

47.

Those who know how to think need no teachers.

Gandhi, Mahatma

48.

He who dares to teach must never cease to learn.

49.

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.

50.

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.