Motivational Quotes

Teacher

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

- Dalai Lama

Best Quotes about Teacher

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

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

Twain, Mark

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

Benson, Ezra Taft

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

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Never offer to teach a fish to swim.

Proverb

He who does not research has nothing to teach.

Proverb

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

Plato

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

Bagehot, Walter

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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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To teach is to learn twice.

Joubert, Joseph

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

Immermann

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

19.

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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A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.

Carruthers, Thomas

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Aristotle

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In teaching others we teach ourselves.

Proverb

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

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

Proverb, German

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

Locke, John

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

Ballard, M. Russell

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

Dalai Lama

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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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Teaching is of more importance than urging.

Luther, Martin

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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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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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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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He who dares to teach must never cease to learn.

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The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.

Doren, Mark Van

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

Snow, Dan

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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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Teaching is the greatest act of optimism.

Wilcox, Colleen

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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

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

Mann, Horace

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I am not a teacher, but an awakener.

Frost, Robert

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Horace

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

Gibran, Kahlil