Motivational Quotes

Teacher

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

- Proverb, German

Best Quotes about Teacher

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

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.

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

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

Givot, George

He who does not research has nothing to teach.

Proverb

Those who know how to think need no teachers.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

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

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

10.

Knowledge exists to be imparted.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

11.

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

12.

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

Baba, Hari Dass

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

Twain, Mark

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

Socrates

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

16.

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

Horace

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

18.

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

Brecht, Bertolt

19.

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

Locke, John

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

Canby, Henry S.

21.

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

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

Proverb, German

23.

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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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

25.

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

Snow, Dan

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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 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.

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

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

Mann, Horace

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

Durant, William J.

33.

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

Immermann

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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 man who can make hard things easy is the educator.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Teaching is of more importance than urging.

Luther, Martin

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.

Doren, Mark Van

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

Benson, Ezra Taft

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

Blishen, Edward

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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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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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Teaching is the greatest act of optimism.

Wilcox, Colleen

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

Einstein, Albert

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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

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.