Quotes on Teacher And Student

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.

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.

The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.

The secret in education lies in respecting the student.

Education would be much more effective if its purpose was to ensure that by the time they leave school every boy and girl should know how much they do not know and be imbued with a lifelong desire to know it.

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

The important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle.

Education should turn out the pupil with something he knows well and something he can do well.

And nevertheless I have loved certain of my masters, and those strangely intimate though elusive relations existing between student and teacher, and the Sirens singing somewhere within the cracked voice of him who is first to reveal a new idea. The greatest seducer was not Alcibiades, afterall, it was Socrates.

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.

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.