When you study great teachers... you will learn much more from their caring and hard work than from their style.
True teachers are those who use themselves as bridges over which they invite their students to cross; then, having facilitated their crossing, joyfully collapse, encouraging them to create their own.
Minds are like parachutes, they only function when they are open.
Teaching is more than imparting knowledge, it is inspiring change.
The children are now working as if I did not exist.
Let us think of education as the means of developing our greatest abilities, because in each of us there is a private hope and dream which, fulfilled, can be translated into benefit for everyone and greater strength of the nation.
One child, one teacher, one book and one pen can change the world.
Who dares to teach must never cease to learn.
Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.
To me the sole hope of human salvation lies in teaching.
Learning is more than absorbing facts, it is acquiring understanding.
Good teaching is more a giving of right questions than a giving of right answers.
Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people can be engaged in.
A good teacher must be able to put himself in the place of those who find learning hard.
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
Warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.
Teach a child how to think, not what to think.
Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
A good teacher is like a candle - it consumes itself to light the way for others.
A master can tell you what he expects of you. A teacher, though, awakens your own expectations.
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.
You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.
Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
The task of the excellent teacher is to stimulate 'apparently ordinary' people to unusual effort. The tough problem is not in identifying winners: it is in making winners out of ordinary people.
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