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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Best Quotes about Teacher

1.

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

Harris, Sidney J.

2.

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

Brecht, Bertolt

3.

Teaching is the greatest act of optimism.

Wilcox, Colleen

4.

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

Snow, Dan

5.

Teaching is of more importance than urging.

Luther, Martin

6.

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

7.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

8.

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

Cowper, William

9.

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

Horace

10.

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

Twain, Mark

11.

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.

12.

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

Mann, Horace

13.

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

Baba, Hari Dass

14.

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

Proverb, German

15.

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

16.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

17.

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

Aristotle

18.

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.

19.

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

Einstein, Albert

20.

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

Ballard, M. Russell

21.

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

22.

Never offer to teach a fish to swim.

Proverb

23.

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

24.

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

Bentham, Jeremy

25.

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

26.

Why are we never quite at ease in the presence of a schoolmaster? Because we are conscious that he is not quite at his ease in ours. He is awkward, and out of place in the society of his equals. He comes like Gulliver from among his little people, and he cannot fit the stature of his understanding to yours.

Lamb, Charles

27.

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

28.

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

29.

To teach is to learn twice.

Joubert, Joseph

30.

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

31.

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

Mann, Horace

32.

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.

33.

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

34.

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

Durant, William J.

35.

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

Shaffer, Robert H.

36.

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

Socrates