Motivational Quotes

Teacher

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

Best Quotes about Teacher

Never offer to teach a fish to swim.

Proverb

The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.

Doren, Mark Van

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

Einstein, Albert

Good teaching must be slow enough so that it is not confusing, and fast enough so that it is not boring.

Harris, Sidney J.

My object will be, if possible, to form Christian men, for Christian boys I can scarcely hope to make.

Arnold, Thomas

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

A schoolmaster should have an atmosphere of awe, and walk wonderingly, as if he was amazed at being himself.

Bagehot, Walter

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

Gibran, Kahlil

10.

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

Plato

11.

In teaching others we teach ourselves.

Proverb

12.

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

Terence

13.

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

Snow, Dan

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

Proverb, German

20.

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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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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Teaching is the greatest act of optimism.

Wilcox, Colleen

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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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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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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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A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.

Carruthers, Thomas

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

Ballard, M. Russell

29.

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

Shaffer, Robert H.

30.

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

31.

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

Immermann

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He who does not research has nothing to teach.

Proverb

33.

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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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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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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Teaching is of more importance than urging.

Luther, Martin

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

Benson, Ezra Taft

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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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To teach is to learn twice.

Joubert, Joseph

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

Socrates

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He who dares to teach must never cease to learn.

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

Durant, William J.

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

Baba, Hari Dass

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

Givot, George

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

Horace

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

Blishen, Edward