Motivational Quotes

Teacher

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

- Twain, Mark

Best Quotes about Teacher

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

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

La Harpe, Frederic-Cesar

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.

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

Brecht, Bertolt

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

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

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

Barzun, Jacques

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

Blishen, Edward

10.

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

Terence

11.

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

Bagehot, Walter

12.

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

Harris, Sidney J.

13.

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

Locke, John

14.

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

Baba, Hari Dass

15.

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

Twain, Mark

16.

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

Immermann

17.

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

18.

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

Plato

19.

Knowledge exists to be imparted.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

20.

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

Arnold, Thomas

21.

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

22.

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

23.

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

24.

Those who know how to think need no teachers.

Gandhi, Mahatma

25.

Teaching is of more importance than urging.

Luther, Martin

26.

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

Ballard, M. Russell

27.

I am not a teacher, but an awakener.

Frost, Robert

28.

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

Shaffer, Robert H.

29.

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

Proverb, German

30.

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

31.

Never offer to teach a fish to swim.

Proverb

32.

In teaching others we teach ourselves.

Proverb

33.

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

34.

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

Bentham, Jeremy

35.

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

36.

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

Mann, Horace

37.

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

38.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

39.

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

40.

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

41.

A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.

Carruthers, Thomas

42.

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.

43.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

44.

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

Snow, Dan

45.

He who does not research has nothing to teach.

Proverb

46.

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

Einstein, Albert

47.

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

48.

Arrogance, pedantry, and dogmatism... the occupational diseases of those who spend their lives directing the intellects of the young.

Canby, Henry S.

49.

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

50.

To teach is to learn twice.

Joubert, Joseph