Motivational Quotes

Teacher

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

Best Quotes about Teacher

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

Durant, William J.

Teaching is the greatest act of optimism.

Wilcox, Colleen

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.

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.

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

Snow, Dan

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

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

Arnold, Thomas

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

Harris, Sidney J.

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

Mann, Horace

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Knowledge exists to be imparted.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

11.

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

12.

I am not a teacher, but an awakener.

Frost, Robert

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

Plato

14.

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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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

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.

Doren, Mark Van

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

Aristotle

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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Never offer to teach a fish to swim.

Proverb

23.

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

Proverb, German

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

Dalai Lama

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

Ballard, M. Russell

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

28.

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

29.

To teach is to learn twice.

Joubert, Joseph

30.

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

Terence

31.

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

Benson, Ezra Taft

32.

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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Mcwilliams, Peter

34.

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

Horace

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

Brecht, Bertolt

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

Immermann

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

Socrates

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

42.

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

Locke, John

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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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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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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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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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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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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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Teaching is of more importance than urging.

Luther, Martin