Motivational Quotes

Teacher

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

- Canby, Henry S.

Best Quotes about Teacher

Knowledge exists to be imparted.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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.

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

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

Bagehot, Walter

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

Ballard, M. Russell

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

Plato

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Teaching is the greatest act of optimism.

Wilcox, Colleen

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

11.

In teaching others we teach ourselves.

Proverb

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Teaching is of more importance than urging.

Luther, Martin

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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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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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Those who know how to think need no teachers.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Barzun, Jacques

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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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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

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

Dalai Lama

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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.

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

Proverb, German

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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.

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

Shaffer, Robert H.

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

Mann, Horace

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A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.

Carruthers, Thomas

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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

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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

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

Mann, Horace

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The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.

Doren, Mark Van

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

Immermann

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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.

34.

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

35.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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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.

Harris, Sidney J.

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

Aristotle

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Horace

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I am not a teacher, but an awakener.

Frost, Robert

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

Givot, George

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

Snow, Dan

45.

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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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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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 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 is to learn twice.

Joubert, Joseph

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

Shaw, George Bernard