Motivational Quotes

Teacher

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.

Best Quotes about Teacher

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

In teaching others we teach ourselves.

Proverb

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

Proverb, German

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

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

Locke, John

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

Gibran, Kahlil

He who does not research has nothing to teach.

Proverb

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

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

Harris, Sidney J.

10.

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

Plato

11.

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.

12.

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

Dalai Lama

13.

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

14.

Knowledge exists to be imparted.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

15.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

16.

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

Immermann

17.

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

18.

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

Twain, Mark

19.

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

Aristotle

20.

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

Durant, William J.

21.

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

22.

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

Socrates

23.

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

24.

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

Terence

25.

Teaching is the greatest act of optimism.

Wilcox, Colleen

26.

The highest function of the teacher consists not so much in imparting knowledge as in stimulating the pupil in its love and pursuit.

27.

Teaching is of more importance than urging.

Luther, Martin

28.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

29.

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

30.

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

31.

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

32.

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

Brecht, Bertolt

33.

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

34.

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

Givot, George

35.

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

Benson, Ezra Taft

36.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

37.

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

Arnold, Thomas

38.

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

Bagehot, Walter

39.

A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.

Carruthers, Thomas

40.

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

Shaffer, Robert H.

41.

The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.

Doren, Mark Van

42.

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.

43.

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

Baba, Hari Dass

44.

He who dares to teach must never cease to learn.

45.

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

Einstein, Albert

46.

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

Snow, Dan