Motivational Quotes

Teacher

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

- Durant, William J.

Best Quotes about Teacher

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Benson, Ezra Taft

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

Dalai Lama

Teaching is the greatest act of optimism.

Wilcox, Colleen

Those who know how to think need no teachers.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Mann, Horace

A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.

Carruthers, Thomas

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

10.

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

Proverb, German

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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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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.

16.

Never offer to teach a fish to swim.

Proverb

17.

He who dares to teach must never cease to learn.

18.

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

Locke, John

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

Immermann

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Mann, Horace

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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

23.

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

25.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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He who does not research has nothing to teach.

Proverb

28.

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

Terence

30.

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

Givot, George

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

Blishen, Edward

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

Cowper, William

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To teach is to learn twice.

Joubert, Joseph

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

Horace

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

Snow, Dan

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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

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

Brecht, Bertolt

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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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I am not a teacher, but an awakener.

Frost, Robert

46.

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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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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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

49.

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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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.