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.
A good teacher is like a candle - it consumes itself to light the way for others.
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.
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'.
What the teacher is, is more important than what he teaches.
The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.
I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.
A master can tell you what he expects of you. A teacher, though, awakens your own expectations.
He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
It's easy to make a buck. It's a lot tougher to make a difference.
Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre.
In teaching you cannot see the fruit of a day's work. It is invisible and remains so, maybe for twenty years.
None of us got where we are solely by pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps.
The good teacher makes the poor student good and the good student superior.
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.
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.
The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.
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