Motivational Quotes

Teacher

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

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Best Quotes about Teacher

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

Immermann

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

Locke, John

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

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Snow, Dan

To teach is to learn twice.

Joubert, Joseph

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

Socrates

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

Benson, Ezra Taft

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

Blishen, Edward

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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.

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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.

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Never offer to teach a fish to swim.

Proverb

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

Aristotle

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

22.

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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I am not a teacher, but an awakener.

Frost, Robert

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Those who know how to think need no teachers.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Terence

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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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The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.

Doren, Mark Van

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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

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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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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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A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.

Carruthers, Thomas

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

Givot, George

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

Proverb, German

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

La Harpe, Frederic-Cesar

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He who does not research has nothing to teach.

Proverb

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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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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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In teaching others we teach ourselves.

Proverb

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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

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He who dares to teach must never cease to learn.

49.

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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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.