Motivational Quotes

Teacher

Arrogance, pedantry, and dogmatism... the occupational diseases of those who spend their lives directing the intellects of the young.

- Canby, Henry S.

Best Quotes about Teacher

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

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

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

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

Immermann

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

Horace

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

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

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

Ballard, M. Russell

10.

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

Einstein, Albert

11.

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

Baba, Hari Dass

12.

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

13.

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

Mann, Horace

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A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.

Carruthers, Thomas

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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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In teaching others we teach ourselves.

Proverb

18.

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

Plato

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

Brecht, Bertolt

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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.

23.

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

Benson, Ezra Taft

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

Terence

26.

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

Proverb, German

28.

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

Cowper, William

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

Durant, William J.

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To teach is to learn twice.

Joubert, Joseph

31.

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

Snow, Dan

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

Socrates

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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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The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.

Doren, Mark Van

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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I am not a teacher, but an awakener.

Frost, Robert

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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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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

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Teaching is of more importance than urging.

Luther, Martin

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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.

43.

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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Never offer to teach a fish to swim.

Proverb

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

La Harpe, Frederic-Cesar

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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Knowledge exists to be imparted.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Barzun, Jacques