Motivational Quotes

Teacher

To teach is to learn twice.

- Joubert, Joseph

Best Quotes about Teacher

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

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.

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

Ballard, M. Russell

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

Einstein, Albert

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

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

Mann, Horace

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

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

Dalai Lama

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

Mann, Horace

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

Horace

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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

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

Durant, William J.

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

Terence

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

Benson, Ezra Taft

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A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.

Carruthers, Thomas

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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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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 art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.

Doren, Mark Van

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To teach is to learn twice.

Joubert, Joseph

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

Socrates

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I am not a teacher, but an awakener.

Frost, Robert

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

26.

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

Proverb, German

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He who dares to teach must never cease to learn.

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

Brecht, Bertolt

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

Cowper, William

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Knowledge exists to be imparted.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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He who does not research has nothing to teach.

Proverb

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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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Barzun, Jacques

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Teaching is the greatest act of optimism.

Wilcox, Colleen

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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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Those who know how to think need no teachers.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Teaching is of more importance than urging.

Luther, Martin