Motivational Quotes

Teacher

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

Best Quotes about Teacher

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

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

Dalai Lama

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

Barzun, Jacques

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

Horace

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.

Knowledge exists to be imparted.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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.

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

Durant, William J.

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Teaching is the greatest act of optimism.

Wilcox, Colleen

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

Ballard, M. Russell

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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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He who dares to teach must never cease to learn.

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

Mann, Horace

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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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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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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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Those who know how to think need no teachers.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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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 art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.

Doren, Mark Van

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

Bentham, Jeremy

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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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In teaching others we teach ourselves.

Proverb

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

Einstein, Albert

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A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.

Carruthers, Thomas

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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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To teach is to learn twice.

Joubert, Joseph

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

Twain, Mark

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

Immermann

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

Socrates

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

Baba, Hari Dass

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