Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Teacher

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

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

Durant, William J.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

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

Horace

He who does not research has nothing to teach.

Proverb

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

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

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

Ballard, M. Russell

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

Twain, Mark

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To teach is to learn twice.

Joubert, Joseph

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

Proverb, German

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

Terence

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

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

Benson, Ezra Taft

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Plato

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Knowledge exists to be imparted.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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

Givot, George

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Snow, Dan

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

Blishen, Edward

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

Dalai Lama

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