The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.
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.
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'.
I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.
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.
The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.
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.
We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.
The good teacher makes the poor student good and the good student superior.
A master can tell you what he expects of you. A teacher, though, awakens your own expectations.
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
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.
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.
The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life.
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