Quotes on Great Teaching

Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.

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

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

What nobler employment, or more valuable to the state, than that of the man who instructs the rising generation?

To teach a man how he may learn to grow independently, and for himself, is perhaps the greatest service that one man can do another.

He that teaches us anything which we knew not before is undoubtedly to be reverenced as a master.

It is, in fact, nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry; for this delicate little plant, aside from stimulation, stands mainly in need of freedom; without this it goes to wrack and ruin without fail. It is a grave mistake to think that the enjoyment of seeing and searching can be promoted by means of coercion and a sense of duty.

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

One child, one teacher, one book and one pen can change the world.

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.

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.