In teaching you cannot see the fruit of a day's work. It is invisible and remains so, maybe for twenty years.
Jacques BarzunRead
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In teaching you cannot see the fruit of a day's work. It is invisible and remains so, maybe for twenty years.
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.
A teacher who can arouse a feeling for one single good action, for one single good poem, accomplishes more than he who fills our memory with rows and rows of natural objects, classified with name and form.
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.
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.
The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
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.
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