Teaching Quotes

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

Robert H. Shaffer

He who dares to teach must never cease to learn.

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

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

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

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

Elbert Hubbard

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

Dan Snow

An understanding heart is everything in a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feeling. 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 Gustav Jung

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

Walter Bagehot

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

Immermann

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.

Floyd Dell

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

I'm not a teacher: only a fellow traveler of whom you asked the way. I pointed ahead - ahead of myself as well as you.

George Bernard Shaw

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

Terence

We love the precepts for the teacher's sake.

George Farquhar

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

Horace

I am afraid that the schools will prove the very gates of hell, unless they diligently labor in explaining the Holy Scriptures and engraving them in the heart of the youth.

Martin Luther King Jr.

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

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

Edward George BulwerLytton