Motivational Quotes

Teacher

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

- Blishen, Edward

Best Quotes about Teacher

To teach successfully we must tell all we know, but only what is adaptable to the student.

La Harpe, Frederic-Cesar

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

Barzun, Jacques

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

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

Socrates

Knowledge exists to be imparted.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Bentham, Jeremy

He who does not research has nothing to teach.

Proverb

In teaching others we teach ourselves.

Proverb

Teaching is the greatest act of optimism.

Wilcox, Colleen

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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

11.

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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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 teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.

Carruthers, Thomas

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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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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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Never offer to teach a fish to swim.

Proverb

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

Benson, Ezra Taft

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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.

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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

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Aristotle

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

33.

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

Dalai Lama

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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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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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Those who know how to think need no teachers.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Mann, Horace

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

Terence

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

Givot, George

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

Horace

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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 art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.

Doren, Mark Van

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

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

Locke, John

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo