Motivational Quotes

Teacher

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

Best Quotes about Teacher

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

Mann, Horace

Knowledge exists to be imparted.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.

Carruthers, Thomas

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

Plato

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

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

Blishen, Edward

Those who know how to think need no teachers.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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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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Teaching is of more importance than urging.

Luther, Martin

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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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Lamb, Charles

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

Barzun, Jacques

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Cowper, William

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

Aristotle

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Horace

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

Proverb, German

29.

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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I am not a teacher, but an awakener.

Frost, Robert

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He who dares to teach must never cease to learn.

32.

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

33.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Terence

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

Dalai Lama

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

Brecht, Bertolt

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

Durant, William J.

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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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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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He who does not research has nothing to teach.

Proverb

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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