Quotes on Great Teacher

As with all great teachers, his curriculum was an insignificant part of what he communicated. From him you didn't learn a subject, but a life...Tolerance and justice, fearlessness and pride, reverence and pity, are learned in a course on long division if the teacher has those qualities.

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

Living fearlessly is not the same as never being afraid. It's good to be afraid occasionally. Fear is a great teacher.

That is the difference between good teachers and great teachers: good teachers make the best of a pupil's means; great teachers foresee a pupil's ends.

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.

Sports are such a great teacher. I think of everything they've taught me: camaraderie, humility, how to resolve differences.

Everyone who remembers his own education remembers teachers, not methods and techniques. The teacher is the heart of the educational system.

Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.

It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.

Silence is the great teacher and to learn its lessons you must pay attention to it. There is no substitute for the creative inspiration, knowledge, and stability that come from knowing how to contact your core of inner silence.

Be an opener of doors for such as come after thee.