Motivational Quotes

Teacher

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

- Plato

Best Quotes about Teacher

In teaching others we teach ourselves.

Proverb

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

Plato

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

Immermann

Teaching is of more importance than urging.

Luther, Martin

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.

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

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

Shaffer, Robert H.

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

Barzun, Jacques

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

Socrates

10.

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

11.

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.

12.

Teaching is the greatest act of optimism.

Wilcox, Colleen

13.

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

14.

Never offer to teach a fish to swim.

Proverb

15.

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

Brecht, Bertolt

16.

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

Proverb, German

17.

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

Mann, Horace

18.

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

19.

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

20.

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

Aristotle

21.

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

22.

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

Ballard, M. Russell

23.

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

24.

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

Benson, Ezra Taft

25.

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

Baba, Hari Dass

26.

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

27.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

28.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

29.

The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.

Doren, Mark Van

30.

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

31.

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

32.

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

Terence

33.

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.

34.

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

Bentham, Jeremy

35.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

36.

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

Twain, Mark

37.

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

38.

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

39.

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

Durant, William J.

40.

He who does not research has nothing to teach.

Proverb

41.

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

42.

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