A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.
It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.
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.
A good teacher is like a candle - it consumes itself to light the way for others.
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
What the teacher is, is more important than what he teaches.
I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
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'.
The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself.
A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.
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.
No man can be a good teacher unless he has feelings of warm affection toward his pupils and a genuine desire to impart to them what he believes to be of value.
To me the sole hope of human salvation lies in teaching.
Every truth has four corners: as a teacher I give you one corner, and it is for you to find the other three.
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
Teachers, I believe, are the most responsible and important members of society because their professional efforts affect the fate of the earth.
Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.
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