Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant.
The teacher must herself be excited if she is to sell her goods. And she can do an exciting job in stirring the student without herself knowing all the answers.
A good teacher can inspire hope, ignite the imagination, and instill a love of learning.
Bear in mind that brains and learning, like muscle and physical skill, are articles of commerce. They are bought and sold. You can hire them by the year or by the hour. The only thing in the world not for sale is character.
I'm a teacher still, but with a much larger classroom.
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.
The more you teach positive ideas to others, the better you learn them yourself.
The trouble with school is they give you the answer, then they give you the exam. That's not life.
Bravery is believing in yourself, and that thing nobody can teach you.
What quantum physics teaches us is that everything we thought was physical is not physical.
Nothing teaches character better than generosity.
From the Cross, Christ teaches us to love even those who do not love us.
Genius without education is like silver in the mine.
Teachers believe they have a gift for giving; it drives them with the same irrepressible drive that drives others to create a work of art or a market or a building.
What office is there which involves more responsibility, which requires more qualifications, and which ought, therefore, to be more honorable, than that of teaching?
The greatest sign of success for a teacher...is to be able to say, "The children are now working as if I did not exist."
We teachers can only help the work going on, as servants wait upon a master.
I believe that the testing of the student's achievements in order to see if he meets some criterion held by the teacher, is directly contrary to the implications of therapy for significant learning.
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
We learn by example and by direct experience because there are real limits to the adequacy of verbal instruction.
The job of an educator is to teach students to see vitality in themselves
Who dares to teach must never cease to learn.
The good teacher makes the poor student good and the good student superior.
The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself.
When a teacher calls a boy by his entire name, it means trouble.
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