Motivational Quotes

Teacher

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

- Dalai Lama

Best Quotes about Teacher

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

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

Canby, Henry S.

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

Brecht, Bertolt

Never offer to teach a fish to swim.

Proverb

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

Immermann

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

Ballard, M. Russell

Knowledge exists to be imparted.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Gibran, Kahlil

13.

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

Baba, Hari Dass

14.

He who does not research has nothing to teach.

Proverb

15.

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

Barzun, Jacques

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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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Teaching is the greatest act of optimism.

Wilcox, Colleen

18.

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

Plato

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To teach is to learn twice.

Joubert, Joseph

20.

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.

21.

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

Snow, Dan

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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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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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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.

25.

In teaching others we teach ourselves.

Proverb

26.

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

27.

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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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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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

30.

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

Proverb, German

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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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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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Once more I would adopt the graver style -- a teacher should be sparing of his smile.

Cowper, William

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Mann, Horace

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

Socrates

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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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He who dares to teach must never cease to learn.

40.

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

41.

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

Durant, William J.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

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I am not a teacher, but an awakener.

Frost, Robert