Quotes on Educating Others

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 saw as a teacher how, if you take that spark of learning that those children have, and you ignite it, you can take a child from any background to a lifetime of creativity and accomplishment.

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 most important part of teaching is to teach what it is to know.

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.

I believe that the testing of the student's achievements in order to see if he meets some criterion held by the teacher, is directly contrary to the implications of therapy for significant learning.

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

I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.

A good teacher, like a good entertainer first must hold his audience's attention, then he can teach his lesson.

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

In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something else.