Motivational Quotes

Teacher

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

- Plato

Best Quotes about Teacher

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

Harris, Sidney J.

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

La Harpe, Frederic-Cesar

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

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

Benson, Ezra Taft

I am not a teacher, but an awakener.

Frost, Robert

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

Socrates

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

Barzun, Jacques

Never offer to teach a fish to swim.

Proverb

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

Plato

10.

Teaching is the greatest act of optimism.

Wilcox, Colleen

11.

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

Locke, John

12.

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

Ballard, M. Russell

13.

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

Proverb, German

14.

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

15.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

16.

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

17.

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

18.

Knowledge exists to be imparted.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

19.

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

Durant, William J.

20.

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

Mann, Horace

21.

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

Dalai Lama

22.

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.

23.

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

Shaffer, Robert H.

24.

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

25.

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

Baba, Hari Dass

26.

To teach is to learn twice.

Joubert, Joseph

27.

In teaching others we teach ourselves.

Proverb

28.

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

29.

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

30.

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

31.

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

Horace

32.

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

33.

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

34.

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

35.

The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.

Doren, Mark Van

36.

Teaching is of more importance than urging.

Luther, Martin

37.

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

38.

A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.

Carruthers, Thomas

39.

A schoolmaster should have an atmosphere of awe, and walk wonderingly, as if he was amazed at being himself.

Bagehot, Walter

40.

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.

Einstein, Albert

41.

Those who know how to think need no teachers.

Gandhi, Mahatma

42.

My object will be, if possible, to form Christian men, for Christian boys I can scarcely hope to make.

Arnold, Thomas

43.

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

Aristotle

44.

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

Twain, Mark

45.

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

46.

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

Cowper, William

47.

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

48.

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