Motivational Quotes

Teacher

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

Best Quotes about Teacher

The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.

Doren, Mark Van

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

Bentham, Jeremy

He who dares to teach must never cease to learn.

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

Ballard, M. Russell

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

Baba, Hari Dass

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

Shaffer, Robert H.

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 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

He who does not research has nothing to teach.

Proverb

10.

To teach is to learn twice.

Joubert, Joseph

11.

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

Proverb, German

12.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

13.

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

Arnold, Thomas

14.

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

Harris, Sidney J.

15.

Teaching is the greatest act of optimism.

Wilcox, Colleen

16.

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

17.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

18.

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

19.

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

Barzun, Jacques

20.

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

21.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

22.

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

Twain, Mark

23.

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

Socrates

24.

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

Terence

25.

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

Locke, John

26.

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

27.

Knowledge exists to be imparted.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

28.

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

Benson, Ezra Taft

29.

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

30.

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

31.

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

La Harpe, Frederic-Cesar

32.

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

33.

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

34.

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

35.

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

Einstein, Albert

36.

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

Dalai Lama

37.

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

Mann, Horace

38.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

39.

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

40.

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

41.

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

42.

In teaching others we teach ourselves.

Proverb

43.

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

Immermann

44.

Never offer to teach a fish to swim.

Proverb

45.

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

Bagehot, Walter

46.

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

Horace

47.

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

48.

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

Aristotle

49.

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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A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.

Carruthers, Thomas