The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre.
Who dares to teach must never cease to learn.
A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.
The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.
The job of an educator is to teach students to see vitality in themselves
The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
Anyone who stops learning is old — whether this happens at twenty or at eighty. Anyone who keeps on learning not only remains young but becomes constantly more valuable — regardless of physical capacity.
Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.
The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.
One good teacher in a lifetime may sometimes change a delinquent into a solid citizen.
Anyone who keeps learning stays young.
No one can take it away from you.
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
I can be a tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration. I can humiliate or heal. In all situations, it is my response that decides whether a crisis will be escalated or de-escalated and a child humanized or dehumanized.
If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
More important than the curriculum is the question of the methods of teaching and the spirit in which the teaching is given
I've come to the frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element in the classroom. It's my personal approach that creates the climate. It's my daily mood that makes the weather. As a teacher, I possess tremendous power to make a student's life miserable or joyous. I can be a tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration. I can humiliate or humor, hurt or heal. In all situations it is my response that decides whether a crisis will be escalated or de-escalated and a student humanized or de-humanized.
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