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

He who dares to teach must never cease to learn.

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

Givot, George

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

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

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

I am not a teacher, but an awakener.

Frost, Robert

The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.

Doren, Mark Van

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

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Durant, William J.

11.

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

Bagehot, Walter

12.

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

Dalai Lama

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

Blishen, Edward

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

Aristotle

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A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.

Carruthers, Thomas

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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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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

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

Plato

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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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Knowledge exists to be imparted.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

La Harpe, Frederic-Cesar

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

30.

To teach is to learn twice.

Joubert, Joseph

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

Brecht, Bertolt

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

Snow, Dan

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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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Teaching is the greatest act of optimism.

Wilcox, Colleen

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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

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Canby, Henry S.

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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 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

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In teaching others we teach ourselves.

Proverb

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

42.

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

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

Cowper, William

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Never offer to teach a fish to swim.

Proverb

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

Immermann

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

Horace

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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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He who does not research has nothing to teach.

Proverb

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