Quotes about teacher

"Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater."

Godwin, Gail on teacher
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"Well had the boding tremblers learned to trace the day's disasters in his morning face."

Goldsmith, Oliver on teacher   

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

Harris, Sidney J. on teacher
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"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 on teacher   

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

Horace on teacher   

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

Hubbard, Elbert on teacher
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"Morality sticks faster when presented in brief sayings than when presented in long discourse."

Immermann on teacher   

"To teach is to learn twice."

Joubert, Joseph on teacher
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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 on teacher
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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 on teacher
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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 on teacher   

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C. on teacher
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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. on teacher   

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

Locke, John on teacher   

"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 on teacher   

"Teaching is of more importance than urging."

Luther, Martin on teacher   

"A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on a cold iron."

Mann, Horace on teacher
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"Teaching isn't one-tenth as effective as training."

Mann, Horace on teacher   

"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 on 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 on teacher
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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. on teacher   

"In the education of children there is nothing like alluring the interest and affection, otherwise you only make so many asses laden with books."

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De on teacher   

"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 on teacher   

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

Plato on 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 on teacher   

"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 on teacher   

"Never offer to teach a fish to swim."

Proverb on teacher   

"In teaching others we teach ourselves."

Proverb on teacher
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"He who does not research has nothing to teach."

Proverb on teacher   

"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 on teacher   

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

Proverb, German on teacher   

"The true aim of everyone who aspires to be a teacher should be, not to impart his own opinions, but to kindle minds."

Robertson, Frederick W. on teacher   

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

Shaffer, Robert H. on teacher
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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 on teacher
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"He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches."

Shaw, George Bernard on teacher
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"When teaching, light a fire, don't fill a bucket."

Snow, Dan on teacher
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"I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think."

Socrates on teacher
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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 on teacher   

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

Terence on teacher   

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

Twain, Mark on teacher
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