Motivational Quotes

Teacher

A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.

- Carruthers, Thomas

Best Quotes about Teacher

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

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

Aristotle

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

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

Harris, Sidney J.

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

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

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

Givot, George

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

Bagehot, Walter

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

10.

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

11.

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

13.

The schoolmaster is abroad! And I trust to him armed with his primer against the soldier in full military array.

Bentham, Jeremy

14.

Those who know how to think need no teachers.

Gandhi, Mahatma

15.

Teaching is of more importance than urging.

Luther, Martin

16.

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

Immermann

17.

He who does not research has nothing to teach.

Proverb

18.

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

Canby, Henry S.

19.

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.

20.

Never offer to teach a fish to swim.

Proverb

21.

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

La Harpe, Frederic-Cesar

22.

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

23.

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

Proverb, German

24.

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

25.

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

Blishen, Edward

26.

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

Barzun, Jacques

27.

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

28.

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

30.

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.

31.

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

Benson, Ezra Taft

32.

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

33.

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

Plato

34.

A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.

Carruthers, Thomas

35.

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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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

37.

To teach is to learn twice.

Joubert, Joseph

38.

He who dares to teach must never cease to learn.

39.

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

Arnold, Thomas

40.

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

41.

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

Twain, Mark

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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

43.

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

Brecht, Bertolt

44.

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

Snow, Dan

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

Terence

47.

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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