Inspirations

A teacher affects eternity, he can never tell where his influence stops.

- Henry Brooks Adams

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.

- Henri Frederic Amiel

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

- Aristotle

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

- Hari Dass Baba

You teach best what you most need to learn.

- Richard Bach

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

- Walter Bagehot

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

- M Russell Ballard

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

- Jacques Barzun

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

- Ezra Taft Benson

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

- Edward Blishen

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.

- Allan Bloom

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

- Bertolt Brecht

Housework is a breeze. Cooking is a pleasant diversion. Putting up a retaining wall is a lark. But teaching is like climbing a mountain.

- Fawn M Brodie

The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself.

- Edward G Bulwer-Lytton

A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.

- Thomas Carruthers

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

A wisely chosen illustration is almost essential to fasten the truth upon the ordinary mind, and no teacher can afford to neglect this part of his preparation.

- Howard Crosby

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

- Dalai Lama

Who dares to teach must never cease to learn.

- John Cotton Dana

The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.

- Mark Van Doren

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

- William J Durant

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

- Albert Einstein

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?

- Albert Einstein

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

I am not a teacher, but an awakener.

- Robert Frost

You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.

- Galileo Galilei

Those who know how to think need no teachers.

- Mahatma Gandhi

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

- Kahlil Gibran

Good teaching is one,fourth preparation and three,fourths theater.

- Gail Godwin

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

- Sidney J Harris

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

- Horace

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

- Elbert Hubbard

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

- Immermann

To teach is to learn twice.

- Joseph Joubert

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.

- Carl Jung

Most subjects at universities are taught for no other purpose than that they may be re,taught when the students become teachers.

- Georg C Lichtenberg

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

- John Locke

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.

- Sir John Lubbock

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

- Horace Mann

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

- Horace Mann

What office is there which involves more responsibility, which requires more qualifications, and which ought, therefore, to be more honorable, than that of teaching?

- Harriet Martineau

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.

- Peter Mcwilliams

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

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

- Plato

In teaching others we teach ourselves.

- Proverb

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

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

He who does not research has nothing to teach.

- Proverb

Never offer to teach a fish to swim.

- Proverb

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

- Frederick W Robertson

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

- Robert H Shaffer

What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.

- George Bernard Shaw

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

- Dan Snow

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

- Socrates

Lessons of wisdom have the most power over us when they capture the heart through the groundwork of a story, which engages the passions.

- Laurence Sterne

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

- Terence

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

- Source Unknown

He who dares to teach must never cease to learn.

- Source Unknown

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

- Source Unknown

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

- Source Unknown

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

- Source Unknown

The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.

- William A Ward

Teaching is the greatest act of optimism.

- Colleen Wilcox

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A teacher affects eternity, he can never tell where his influence stops.

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.

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

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

You teach best what you most need to learn.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Housework is a breeze. Cooking is a pleasant diversion. Putting up a retaining wall is a lark. But teaching is like climbing a mountain.

The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself.

A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.

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.

A wisely chosen illustration is almost essential to fasten the truth upon the ordinary mind, and no teacher can afford to neglect this part of his preparation.

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

Who dares to teach must never cease to learn.

The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.

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

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

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?

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

I am not a teacher, but an awakener.

You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.

Those who know how to think need no teachers.

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

Good teaching is one,fourth preparation and three,fourths theater.

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

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

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

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

To teach is to learn twice.

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.

Most subjects at universities are taught for no other purpose than that they may be re,taught when the students become teachers.

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

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.

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

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

What office is there which involves more responsibility, which requires more qualifications, and which ought, therefore, to be more honorable, than that of teaching?

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.

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.

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

In teaching others we teach ourselves.

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.

To teach well, we need not say all that we know, Successful teachers are effective in spite of the psychological theories they suffer under.

He who does not research has nothing to teach.

Never offer to teach a fish to swim.

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

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

What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.

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

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

Lessons of wisdom have the most power over us when they capture the heart through the groundwork of a story, which engages the passions.

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

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

He who dares to teach must never cease to learn.

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

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

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

The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.

Teaching is the greatest act of optimism.

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