Motivational Quotes

Teacher

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

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

Mann, Horace

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

Canby, Henry S.

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

Dalai Lama

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.

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

Aristotle

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

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

Proverb, German

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

Bagehot, Walter

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

10.

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

Socrates

11.

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

12.

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

Ballard, M. Russell

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.

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

Blishen, Edward

15.

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

Baba, Hari Dass

16.

I am not a teacher, but an awakener.

Frost, Robert

17.

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

18.

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

Twain, Mark

19.

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

Bentham, Jeremy

20.

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

21.

The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.

Doren, Mark Van

22.

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

Einstein, Albert

23.

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

Locke, John

24.

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

Plato

25.

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

26.

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

Benson, Ezra Taft

27.

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

28.

In teaching others we teach ourselves.

Proverb

29.

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

Mann, Horace

30.

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

Terence

31.

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

Barzun, Jacques

32.

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

33.

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

34.

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

35.

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.

36.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

37.

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

Snow, Dan

38.

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

39.

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

Horace

40.

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

Cowper, William

41.

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

42.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

43.

He who does not research has nothing to teach.

Proverb

44.

Never offer to teach a fish to swim.

Proverb

45.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

46.

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

Immermann

47.

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

Harris, Sidney J.

48.

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

49.

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

Brecht, Bertolt