Motivational Quotes

Teacher

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

Best Quotes about Teacher

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.

Never offer to teach a fish to swim.

Proverb

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Knowledge exists to be imparted.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Durant, William J.

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

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

Canby, Henry S.

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

Mann, Horace

I am not a teacher, but an awakener.

Frost, Robert

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.

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

12.

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

13.

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

Aristotle

14.

To teach is to learn twice.

Joubert, Joseph

15.

Teaching is the greatest act of optimism.

Wilcox, Colleen

16.

He who dares to teach must never cease to learn.

17.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

18.

The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.

Doren, Mark Van

19.

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

Bentham, Jeremy

20.

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

21.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

22.

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

23.

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

Benson, Ezra Taft

24.

In teaching others we teach ourselves.

Proverb

25.

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

Proverb, German

26.

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

27.

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

28.

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

29.

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

Blishen, Edward

30.

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

31.

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

Snow, Dan

32.

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.

33.

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

34.

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

Twain, Mark

35.

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

36.

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

Dalai Lama

38.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

39.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

40.

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

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Those who know how to think need no teachers.

Gandhi, Mahatma

42.

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

Baba, Hari Dass

43.

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

Cowper, William

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A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.