Motivational Quotes

Teacher

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

- Brecht, Bertolt

Best Quotes about Teacher

I am not a teacher, but an awakener.

Frost, Robert

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.

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

Plato

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

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

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

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

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

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

Terence

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

Gibran, Kahlil

12.

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

Ballard, M. Russell

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

15.

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 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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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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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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Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.

Barzun, Jacques

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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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A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.

Carruthers, Thomas

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Givot, George

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

Brecht, Bertolt

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

Durant, William J.

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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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Knowledge exists to be imparted.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

31.

Never offer to teach a fish to swim.

Proverb

32.

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

Proverb, German

33.

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

34.

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 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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In teaching others we teach ourselves.

Proverb

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

Blishen, Edward

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

Socrates

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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Those who know how to think need no teachers.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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Teaching is of more importance than urging.

Luther, Martin

43.

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

Cowper, William

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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

46.

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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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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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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Teaching is the greatest act of optimism.

Wilcox, Colleen