The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.
A good teacher is like a candle - it consumes itself to light the way for others.
It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.
Who dares to teach must never cease to learn.
Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.
Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre.
The good teacher makes the poor student good and the good student superior.
In teaching you cannot see the fruit of a day's work. It is invisible and remains so, maybe for twenty years.
A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.
You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.
Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.
Good teaching is more a giving of right questions than a giving of right answers.
The children are now working as if I did not exist.
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
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.
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 mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.
I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.
Teachers are expected to reach unattainable goals with inadequate tools. The miracle is that at times they accomplish this impossible task.
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