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

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

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

We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled, but as candles to be lit.

Shaffer, Robert H.

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

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

Harris, Sidney J.

Knowledge exists to be imparted.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Givot, George

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

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

Baba, Hari Dass

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

Proverb, German

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To teach is to learn twice.

Joubert, Joseph

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The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.

Doren, Mark Van

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

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A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.

Carruthers, 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 man who can make hard things easy is the educator.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Socrates

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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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I am not a teacher, but an awakener.

Frost, Robert

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

Durant, William J.

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

Brecht, Bertolt

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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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He who dares to teach must never cease to learn.

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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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Teaching is of more importance than urging.

Luther, Martin

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In teaching others we teach ourselves.

Proverb

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Mann, Horace

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

Benson, Ezra Taft

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

Plato

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

Locke, John

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

Terence

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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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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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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