Motivational Quotes

Teacher

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

- Shaffer, Robert H.

Best Quotes about Teacher

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

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

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

Bagehot, Walter

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

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

Ballard, M. Russell

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

To teach is to learn twice.

Joubert, Joseph

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

Barzun, Jacques

A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.

Carruthers, Thomas

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

Brecht, Bertolt

11.

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

Snow, Dan

12.

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

Terence

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

17.

He who does not research has nothing to teach.

Proverb

18.

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

Benson, Ezra Taft

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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Never offer to teach a fish to swim.

Proverb

24.

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

25.

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

26.

Knowledge exists to be imparted.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

33.

He who dares to teach must never cease to learn.

34.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

41.

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

42.

I am not a teacher, but an awakener.

Frost, Robert

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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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The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.

Doren, Mark Van

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Those who know how to think need no teachers.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Mann, Horace

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

Horace

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

Givot, George

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

Baba, Hari Dass

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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