Motivational Quotes

Teacher

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.

Best Quotes about Teacher

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

Twain, Mark

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.

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

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

Socrates

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

Givot, George

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

Canby, Henry S.

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

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

Proverb, German

The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.

Doren, Mark Van

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A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.

Carruthers, Thomas

11.

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

12.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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He who does not research has nothing to teach.

Proverb

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

Dalai Lama

17.

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

Immermann

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

Horace

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Teaching is of more importance than urging.

Luther, Martin

24.

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

25.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Benson, Ezra Taft

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

Aristotle

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Durant, William J.

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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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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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Those who know how to think need no teachers.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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He who dares to teach must never cease to learn.

39.

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

40.

Teaching is the greatest act of optimism.

Wilcox, Colleen

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

Terence

42.

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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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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Knowledge exists to be imparted.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Baba, Hari Dass

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

Mann, Horace

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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