A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
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.
Warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.
It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.
A good teacher is like a candle - it consumes itself to light the way for others.
I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.
What the teacher is, is more important than what he teaches.
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'.
I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.
He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.
The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.
In teaching you cannot see the fruit of a day's work. It is invisible and remains so, maybe for twenty years.
Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre.
Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.
It's easy to make a buck. It's a lot tougher to make a difference.
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.
A master can tell you what he expects of you. A teacher, though, awakens your own expectations.
We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.
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