Motivational Quotes

Teacher

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

- Baba, Hari Dass

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

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

Horace

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

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

Durant, William J.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Teaching is the greatest act of optimism.

Wilcox, Colleen

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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He who dares to teach must never cease to learn.

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

Immermann

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To teach is to learn twice.

Joubert, Joseph

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

Benson, Ezra Taft

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

Baba, Hari Dass

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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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He who does not research has nothing to teach.

Proverb

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

Locke, John

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Knowledge exists to be imparted.

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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Teaching is of more importance than urging.

Luther, Martin

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

Socrates

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

Mann, Horace

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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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We will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught.

28.

Those who know how to think need no teachers.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.

Doren, Mark Van

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Never offer to teach a fish to swim.

Proverb

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

Givot, George

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

Terence

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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 secret of teaching is to appear to have known all your life what you just learned this morning.

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

Snow, Dan

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Ballard, M. Russell

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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 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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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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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