Quotes on Teacher Student

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

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.

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.

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.

Awaken people's curiosity. It is enough to open minds, do not overload them. Put there just a spark.

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

He who opens a school door, closes a prison.

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.

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.

Compulsory education... It is a painful, continual, and difficult work; to be done by kindness, by watching, by warning, by precept, and by praise, — but above all — by example.

Science is a cooperative enterprise spanning the generations. It's the passing of a torch from teacher to student to teacher. A community of minds, reaching back to antiquity and forward to the stars.

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

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

Anyone who stops learning is old — whether this happens at twenty or at eighty. Anyone who keeps on learning not only remains young but becomes constantly more valuable — regardless of physical capacity.

We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself.

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

If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.

Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.

The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.

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