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

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

Baba, Hari Dass

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

La Harpe, Frederic-Cesar

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

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

I believe that every human soul is teaching something to someone nearly every minute here in mortality.

Ballard, M. Russell

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

Cowper, William

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

Immermann

A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.

Carruthers, Thomas

10.

I am not a teacher, but an awakener.

Frost, Robert

11.

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

Benson, Ezra Taft

12.

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

13.

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

14.

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

Socrates

15.

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

Brecht, Bertolt

16.

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

17.

The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.

Doren, Mark Van

18.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

19.

Never offer to teach a fish to swim.

Proverb

20.

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

Terence

21.

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

22.

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

Durant, William J.

23.

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

24.

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

Mann, Horace

25.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

26.

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

Aristotle

27.

He who does not research has nothing to teach.

Proverb

28.

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

Locke, John

29.

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

Plato

30.

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

Horace

31.

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

Bentham, Jeremy

32.

Teaching is the greatest act of optimism.

Wilcox, Colleen

33.

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 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

35.

Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.

Barzun, Jacques

36.

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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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

38.

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

39.

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

40.

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

41.

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

Shaffer, Robert H.

42.

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

43.

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

44.

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

45.

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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A schoolmaster should have an atmosphere of awe, and walk wonderingly, as if he was amazed at being himself.

Bagehot, Walter

47.

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

48.

To teach is to learn twice.

Joubert, Joseph

49.

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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He who dares to teach must never cease to learn.