It is only as we develop others that we permanently succeed.
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It is only as we develop others that we permanently succeed.
My best teachers were not the ones who knew all the answers, but those who were deeply excited by questions they couldn't answer.
Let us think of education as the means of developing our greatest abilities, because in each of us there is a private hope and dream which, fulfilled, can be translated into benefit for everyone and greater strength of the nation.
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn't need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around.
In teaching you cannot see the fruit of a day's work. It is invisible and remains so, maybe for twenty years.
He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
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.
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.
Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.
Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.
History is the only true teacher, the revolution the best school for the proletariat.
Education is the silver bullet. Education is everything. We don't need little changes, we need gigantic, monumental changes. Schools should be palaces. The competition for the best teachers should be fierce. They should be making six-figure salaries. Schools should be incredibly expensive for government and absolutely free of charge to its citizens, just like national defense. That's my position. I just haven't figured out how to do it yet.
Embrace struggle... It is your greatest teacher.
It's easy to make a buck. It's a lot tougher to make a difference.
You can't stop a teacher when they want to do something. They just do it.
There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
What is a teacher? I'll tell you: it isn't someone who teaches something, but someone who inspires the student to give of her best in order to discover what she already knows.
The best teacher is experience and not through someone's distorted point of view
It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.
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