Quotes on Art Teacher

We now accept the fact that learning is a lifelong process of keeping abreast of change. And the most pressing task is to teach people how to learn.

Teaching is the only major occupation of man for which we have not yet developed tools that make an average person capable of competence and performance. In teaching we rely on the 'naturals,' the ones who somehow know how to teach.

I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way - things I had no words for.

The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself.

The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.

The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.

Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.

An understanding heart is everything in a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough.

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.

A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.

A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.

The great tragedy is that they're removing art completely, not because they're putting more science in, but because they can't afford the art teachers or because somebody thinks it's not useful. An enlightened society has all of this going on within it. It's part of what distinguishes what it is to be human from other life forms on Earth - that we have culture.

Good teaching is more a giving of right questions than a giving of right answers.

The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-trust. He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him. He will have no disciples.

And I must draft an advertisement for the Daily Prophet, too,' he added thoughtfully. 'We'll be needing a new Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher.... Dear me, we do seem to run through them, don't we?

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.