What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.
A good teacher can inspire hope, ignite the imagination, and instill a love of learning.
Who dares to teach must never cease to learn.
I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.
When our students fail, we, as teachers, too, have failed.
The average teacher explains complexity; the gifted teacher reveals simplicity.
Most of us end up with no more than five or six people who remember us. Teachers have thousands of people who remember them for the rest of their lives.
The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
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 art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.
The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without his teacher.
He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.
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."
The children are now working as if I did not exist.
The good teacher makes the poor student good and the good student superior.
None of us got where we are solely by pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps. We got here because somebody - a parent, a teacher, an Ivy League crony or a few nuns - bent down and helped us pick up our boots.
A master can tell you what he expects of you. A teacher, though, awakens your own expectations.
A good teacher is like a candle - it consumes itself to light the way for others.
The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself.
The dream begins with a teacher who believes in you, who tugs and pushes and leads you to the next plateau, sometimes poking you with a sharp stick called 'truth'.
Modern cynics and skeptics... see no harm in paying those to whom they entrust the minds of their children a smaller wage than is paid to those to whom they entrust the care of their plumbing.
Don't try to fix the students, fix ourselves first. The good teacher makes the poor student good and the good student superior. When our students fail, we, as teachers, too, have failed.
In teaching you cannot see the fruit of a day's work. It is invisible and remains so, maybe for twenty years.
A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.
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