Motivational Quotes

Teacher

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

- Benson, Ezra Taft

Best Quotes about Teacher

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

Brecht, Bertolt

Teaching is of more importance than urging.

Luther, Martin

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

Benson, Ezra Taft

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

La Harpe, Frederic-Cesar

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 am not a teacher, but an awakener.

Frost, Robert

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

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Immermann

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

Twain, Mark

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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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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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In teaching others we teach ourselves.

Proverb

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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No one ever teaches well who wants to teach, or governs well who wants to govern.

Plato

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

Locke, John

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

Aristotle

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Knowledge exists to be imparted.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Givot, George

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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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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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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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He who does not research has nothing to teach.

Proverb

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Teaching is the greatest act of optimism.

Wilcox, Colleen

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To teach is to learn twice.

Joubert, Joseph

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Durant, William J.

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A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.

Carruthers, Thomas

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

Socrates

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

Mann, Horace

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

Dalai Lama

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