Quotes on Great Teacher

What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.

It is only as we develop others that we permanently succeed.

Estiven Rodriguez couldn't speak a word of English when he moved to New York City at age nine. But last month, thanks to the support of great teachers and an innovative tutoring program, he led a march of his classmates - through a crowd of cheering parents and neighbors - from their high school to the post office, where they mailed off their college applications. And this son of a factory worker just found out he's going to college this fall.

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.

Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater. Possession pampers the mind; privation trains and strengthens it.

No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure.

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.

In teaching you cannot see the fruit of a day's work. It is invisible and remains so, maybe for twenty years.

Education makes a people easy to lead but difficult to drive easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.

If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help. There was a great teacher somewhere in your life.

A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.

Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

He who opens a school door, closes a prison.

Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people can be engaged in.

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.

I’ve worked in an economy that rewards someone who saves the lives of others on a battlefield with a medal, rewards a great teacher with thank-you notes from parents, but rewards those who can detect the mispricing of securities with sums reaching into the billions.

Hope humbly then; with trembling pinions soar;_x000D_ _x000D_ Wait the great teacher, Death, and God adore;_x000D_ _x000D_ What future bliss He gives not thee to know,_x000D_ _x000D_ But gives that hope to be thy blessing now.

I had a great teacher in India who said to me, 'If you think you're spiritual and evolved and enlightened, go home for Christmas.'

The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn.

In all the works on pedagogy that ever I read — and they have been many, big, and heavy — I don't remember that any one has advocated a system of teaching by practical jokes, mostly cruel. That, however, describes the method of our great teacher, Experience.

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