Motivational Quotes

Teacher

He who dares to teach must never cease to learn.

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Best Quotes about Teacher

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

Horace

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

Proverb, German

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

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

Ballard, M. Russell

You can't teach a hunter it's wrong to kill.

Baba, Hari Dass

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Blishen, Edward

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

La Harpe, Frederic-Cesar

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

Terence

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He who dares to teach must never cease to learn.

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

Benson, Ezra Taft

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

Locke, John

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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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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 does not research has nothing to teach.

Proverb

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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 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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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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Knowledge exists to be imparted.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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To teach is to learn twice.

Joubert, Joseph

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Socrates

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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Those who know how to think need no teachers.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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In teaching others we teach ourselves.

Proverb

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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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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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Never offer to teach a fish to swim.

Proverb

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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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I am not a teacher, but an awakener.

Frost, Robert

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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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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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Teaching is the greatest act of optimism.

Wilcox, Colleen

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

Durant, William J.

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

Twain, Mark

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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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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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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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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.