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.
The job of an educator is to teach students to see vitality in themselves
The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.
Who dares to teach must never cease to learn.
Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
What office is there which involves more responsibility, which requires more qualifications, and which ought, therefore, to be more honorable, than that of teaching?
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.
The teacher is one who makes two ideas grow where only one grew before.
The thing I loved the most - and still love the most about teaching - is that you can connect with an individual or a group, and see that individual or group exceed their limits.
A true disciple shows his appreciation by reaching further than his teacher.
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. That every man may receive at least a moderate education...appears to be an object of vital importance...
A good teacher, like a good entertainer first must hold his audience's attention, then he can teach his lesson.
The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself.
I never teach my pupils, I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.
The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach.
I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought; and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
Bitter are the roots of study, but how sweet their fruit.
Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.
Thanks are the highest form of thought.
The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-trust. He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him. He will have no disciples.
The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education.
I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.
What nobler employment, or more valuable to the state, than that of the man who instructs the rising generation?
Anyone who does anything to help a child in his life is a hero to me.
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