Statements by thinkers and educators on the role of the teacher


Famous quotes about teachers (100 quotes)

The work of a teacher is considered one of the most respected and at the same time difficult. A good mentor can find an approach to every child, get them interested in their subject, and teach them to respect their classmates. Famous writers, philosophers, scientists, and politicians had mentors who passed on important knowledge to their students. Wise and humorous statements will help future teachers communicate correctly with children and set priorities correctly. Famous quotes about teachers In this section of our site.

How important, great and sacred is the rank of a teacher: in his hands is the fate of a person’s entire life. A student will never surpass a teacher if he sees him as a model and not a rival. Vissarion Grigorievich Belinsky

The secret to real learning is to think about what you learned this morning as if you had known it all your life. author unknown

Teachers are given the floor not to lull their own thoughts, but to awaken someone else’s. Vasily Osipovich Klyuchevsky

We can teach from our experience, but we cannot convey the experience itself. Sasha Azevedo

All the pride of a teacher in his students is the growth of the seeds he sows. Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev

A teacher is someone who, over time, makes himself unnecessary. Thomas Carruthers

Some people believe that the teacher is stealing from his students. Others say that students rob the teacher. I believe that both are right, and participation in this mutual theft is wonderful. Lev Davidovich Landau

I like teachers who, in addition to homework, give us something else to take home to think about. Lily Tomlin

To educate others, we must first educate ourselves. Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol

Teaching is an opportunity to learn something twice. Joseph Hubert

The teacher himself must be what he wants the student to be. Vladimir Ivanovich Dal

The highest art a teacher possesses is the ability to awaken joy in creative expression and the acquisition of knowledge. Albert Einstein

For a teacher, perhaps the most important thing is not to take himself seriously, to understand that he can teach very little. Valentin Grigorievich Rasputin

The teacher influences eternity: one can never be sure where his influence ends. Henry Adams

A real teacher is not the one who constantly educates you, but the one who helps you become yourself. Mikhail Arkadyevich Svetlov

A truly wise teacher does not invite you to visit his own house of wisdom, but leads you to the threshold of your own mind. Kahlil Gibran

A teacher, if he is honest, must always be an attentive student. Maksim Gorky

The art of teaching is the art of facilitating discovery. Mark Van Doren

A teacher is not the one who teaches something, but the one who helps to reveal to his student what he already knows. Paulo Coelho

I am not a teacher. I am the one who awakens you. Robert Frost

Knowledge - like heaven - belongs to everyone. No teacher has the right to withhold them from anyone who asks for them. Teaching is the art of giving. Abraham Joshua Heschel

Don't try to cure your students, cure yourself first. A good teacher will make a bad student good and a good student great. Marva Collins

A person always learns only from those he loves. Those from whom we learn are rightly called teachers, but not everyone who teaches us deserves this name. Johann Wolfgang Goethe

When our students fail, we, as their teachers, fail too. Marva Collins

Your teacher is not the one who teaches you, but the one from whom you learn. Richard Bach

When you teach, you need to know three things: your subject, who you're teaching it to, and how to teach your material elegantly. Lola May

Everything you need to know cannot be taught; the teacher can only do one thing - show the way. Richard Aldington

The average teacher tells. A good teacher explains. A very good teacher demonstrates. A great teacher inspires. William Artout Ward

It takes more intelligence to teach another than to learn yourself. Michel de Montaigne

An average teacher explains complex things, a gifted teacher reveals the beauty of simple things. Robert Brault

Teaching means doubly learning. Children do not need teachings, but examples. Joseph Joubert

A good teacher is like a candle. He dissolves himself in order to give light to others. author unknown

If you wash a cat, they say it will no longer wash itself. A person will never learn what he is taught. George Bernard Shaw

Don't be angry with others because you can't force them to be the way you want them to be. Be angry at yourself for not being able to become the person you want to be. Thomas A. Kempis

What the teachers digest, the students eat. Karl Kraus

The real purpose of every teacher is not to instill his opinion in others, but to ignite the minds of others. F. W. Robertson

If you have knowledge, let others light their lamps from it. Thomas Fuller

The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a torch to be lit. Plutarch

You learn fastest and best when you teach others. German revolutionary Rosa Luxemburg

Knowing how to make assumptions is the great art of a teacher. Henry Frederick Amiel

The greatest joy for a teacher is when his student is praised. English poet and novelist Charlotte Brontë

You can pay people to teach. But you can't pay them to worry about the outcome. Marva Collins

What is the difference between a good and a great teacher? A good teacher develops a student's abilities to the limit; a great teacher immediately sees this limit. Greek singer Maria Callas

The one who teaches must always continue to learn himself. Richard Henry Dunn

Education is the knowledge that we get from books and which no one knows about except our teacher. Virginia Hudson

No one can teach a crab to walk in a straight line. Aristophanes

The secret of good teaching is to regard the child's intellect as a fertile field in which seeds can be sown to grow in the warmth of a burning imagination. Maria Montessori - Italian teacher, doctor, philosopher and scientist

I never teach my students. I only provide the conditions in which they can learn. Albert Einstein

Teachers to whom children owe their upbringing are more honorable than parents: some give us only life, while others give us a good life. Aristotle

Ideal teachers are bridge people who invite their students to cross to the other side. The moment they are solved, bridges are destroyed and teachers inspire students to build their own bridges. Nikos Kazantzakis

Whoever has not been a student will not be a teacher. French philosopher of the 13th century. Boethius of Dacia

Sometimes one person can inspire many others. Andrew Jackson

He who comprehends the new while cherishing the old can be a teacher. Confucius

The stream of thoughts is stories, stories about different events, stories about people and stories about achievements. The best teachers are the best storytellers. We learn by listening to stories. Frank Smith

A good teacher is one whose words do not differ from his deeds. Cato the Elder

A good teacher gives more questions than answers. Joseph Albers

One should trust more those who teach, rather than those who command. Augustine the Blessed

Time is a great teacher. What a pity that he kills all his students. Louis Hector Berlioz

A mediocre teacher expounds. A good teacher explains. An outstanding teacher shows. A great teacher inspires. William Ward

Teachers who inspire know that teaching is like tending a garden. And those who do not know what to do with thorns should never deal with flowers. Author unknown.

A teacher is the person who must pass on to the new generation all the valuable accumulations of centuries and not pass on prejudices, vices and diseases. Anatoly Vasilievich Lunacharsky

Hey great teachers: listen to what you say! Goethe

Strengths and weaknesses are rooted in school, and the keys to well-being lie with teachers. Ruhollah Mousavi Khomeini

A teacher is the person who must pass on to the new generation all the valuable accumulations of centuries and not pass on prejudices, vices and diseases. Anatoly Vasilievich Lunacharsky

A teacher works on the most important task - he shapes a person. A teacher is an engineer of human souls. Mikhail Ivanovich Kalinin

Teaching should be filled with ideas, not stuffed with facts. author unknown

School teachers wield power that prime ministers can only dream of. Winston Churchill

Before teaching others, a person must understand his life direction. Buddha

They have been given an excellent position, higher than which nothing can be under this sun. Let it be an eternal law: to teach and learn everything through examples, instructions and application in practice. Jan Amos Comenius

Treat people as if they are already perfect, and then you will help them become who they can become. Goethe

The teacher is a person with humor. Imagine a teacher without humor and you will understand that he will not last long, and if he does, it will, unfortunately, last only his legs. Alexander Ryzhikov

The best teachers teach with their hearts, not with a book. author unknown

A teacher who does not begin by arousing the student's desire to learn is striking cold iron. Horace Mann

A teacher who teaches without inspiring students to learn is trying to forge cold iron. Horace Mann

The role of the teacher is to open doors, not to push the student through them. Arthur Schnabel

Give me fish and I can have enough for the day. Teach me to fish and I'll eat for the rest of my life. Chinese proverb

A good teacher can teach others even what he himself cannot do. Tadeusz Kotarbiński

Teachers who burn out are not those who are constantly teaching, which can also be exhausting. Those who burn out are teachers who try to keep their students and the classroom under their constant control. Frank Smith

From the lessons of some teachers, we learn only the ability to sit up straight. Wladyslaw Katarzynski

Be the one who opens doors for those who follow you. Ralph Waldo Emerson

He who teaches himself has a fool as a teacher. English proverb

A real teacher will teach his students not to succumb to the influence of others, including their own. Amos Bronson Alcott

Students remember nothing more firmly than the mistakes of their teachers. Anton Ligov

Both upbringing and education are inseparable. You cannot educate without passing on knowledge; all knowledge has an educational effect. L.N. Tolstoy

According to teachers, eggs do not teach chicken; according to students, chicken is not a bird. Alexander Botvinnikov

Teachers should lead without forcing and participate without suppressing. S. B. Neblette

The teaching profession provides a lifetime guarantee against kidnapping for ransom. Stanislav Motsarski

For every person who wants to teach, there are about 30 people who don't want to learn anything else. V. S. Stellar

School is a place where teachers demand knowledge from students in all subjects, while they themselves know only one.

The most important knowledge for every teacher to do his job well is knowledge of how his students experience the learning process and how they perceive the actions of their teacher. Stephen Brookfield

The secret of teaching is to show that you have known all your life what you read about last night.

You can't control the wind, but you can trim the sails. author unknown

Judging by teachers' salaries, our government consists of vindictive losers.

The ideal of perfection that teachers embody is too unattractive to strive for. Karl Froelich

There are three good reasons to become a teacher: June, July, August.

The characteristic of a teacher is not to hesitate in what he himself says. John Chrysostom

In the long term, spoon feeding can only teach us what the shape of the spoon itself is. E. M. Foster

Our true teachers are experience and feeling. Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Everything should be as simple as possible. But it's not easier. Albert Einstein

The student is a torch that needs to be lit

Quotes and aphorisms for Teacher's Day

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The disciple is not a vessel that needs to be filled, but a torch that needs to be lit.

Plutarch

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The best teacher is one who proposes, rather than posits, and inspires his listeners to learn.

E. Bulwer-Litto

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A teacher who can awaken the desire for one good deed, one good poem, does more than one who fills our memory with rows of natural objects classified by name and shape

J. W. von Goethe

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Sow what is reasonable, good, eternal, sow! The Russian people will thank you from the heart!

ON THE. Nekrasov

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

John Locke

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For every one who wants to teach, there are about thirty who do not want to think. Walter Sellar and Robert Yeatman

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Students remember nothing more firmly than the mistakes of their teachers.

Anton Ligov

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The most important phenomenon in school, the most instructive subject, the most living example for the student is the teacher himself.

A. Diesterweg

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I think that the first teacher was the nanny, because the nanny spent all the time with me...

Sigurd Ottovich Schmidt

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