Motivational Quotes

Teacher

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

- Aristotle

Best Quotes about Teacher

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

Givot, George

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

Cowper, William

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

Aristotle

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

We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled, but as candles to be lit.

Shaffer, Robert H.

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Ballard, M. Russell

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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

11.

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

12.

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

13.

He who dares to teach must never cease to learn.

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

Mann, Horace

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

19.

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

Einstein, Albert

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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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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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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

23.

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

Blishen, Edward

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

Twain, Mark

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

Dalai Lama

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

Proverb, German

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

Baba, Hari Dass

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Those who know how to think need no teachers.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Mann, Horace

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

Durant, William J.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Snow, Dan

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Teaching is of more importance than urging.

Luther, Martin

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

Benson, Ezra Taft

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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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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 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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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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I am not a teacher, but an awakener.

Frost, Robert

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

Horace

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To teach is to learn twice.

Joubert, Joseph

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Never offer to teach a fish to swim.

Proverb

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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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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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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.