Quotes on Inspirational Teacher

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

I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.

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.

If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn't need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around.

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.

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

I have created nothing really beautiful, really lasting, but if I can inspire one of these youngsters to develop the talent I know they possess, then my monument will be in their work.

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

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

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.

The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself.

The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

When our students fail, we, as teachers, too, have failed.

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

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.

The job of an educator is to teach students to see vitality in themselves

Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.

Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants.

If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement, and mystery of the world we live in.