A good teacher is like a candle - it consumes itself to light the way for others.
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
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'.
It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.
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 best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself.
A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.
Teachers, I believe, are the most responsible and important members of society because their professional efforts affect the fate of the earth.
I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.
In teaching you cannot see the fruit of a day's work. It is invisible and remains so, maybe for twenty years.
Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.
I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.
I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.
The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.
One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.
A teacher who can arouse a feeling for one single good action, for one single good poem, accomplishes more than he who fills our memory with rows and rows of natural objects, classified with name and form.
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
Every child should have a caring adult in their lives. And that's not always a biological parent or family member. It may be a friend or neighbor. Often times it is a teacher.
The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without his teacher.
The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
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