Motivational Quotes

Teacher

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

- La Harpe, Frederic-Cesar

Best Quotes about Teacher

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

Cowper, William

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

To teach is to learn twice.

Joubert, Joseph

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

Baba, Hari Dass

Those who know how to think need no teachers.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Bentham, Jeremy

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

A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on a cold iron.

Mann, Horace

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

18.

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

Plato

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

Harris, Sidney J.

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Teaching is the greatest act of optimism.

Wilcox, Colleen

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

Locke, John

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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 man who can make hard things easy is the educator.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Durant, William J.

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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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He who does not research has nothing to teach.

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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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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Knowledge exists to be imparted.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Horace

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

Socrates

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

Mann, Horace

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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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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.

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

Snow, Dan

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

Immermann

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I am not a teacher, but an awakener.