Motivational Quotes

Teacher

Never offer to teach a fish to swim.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Teacher

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

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

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

Givot, George

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

Horace

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

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

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

La Harpe, Frederic-Cesar

He who does not research has nothing to teach.

Proverb

Teaching is the greatest act of optimism.

Wilcox, Colleen

10.

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

Dalai Lama

11.

Teaching is of more importance than urging.

Luther, Martin

12.

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

Shaffer, Robert H.

13.

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

14.

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

Socrates

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

Aristotle

16.

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

Arnold, Thomas

17.

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

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

Brecht, Bertolt

20.

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

Ballard, M. Russell

21.

He who dares to teach must never cease to learn.

22.

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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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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Those who know how to think need no teachers.

Gandhi, Mahatma

25.

In teaching others we teach ourselves.

Proverb

26.

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

Bentham, Jeremy

28.

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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A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.

Carruthers, Thomas

30.

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

Proverb, German

31.

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

Plato

32.

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

33.

Never offer to teach a fish to swim.

Proverb

34.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

35.

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

Benson, Ezra Taft

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

Immermann

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

Baba, Hari Dass

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

41.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Snow, Dan

43.

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Mann, Horace