Quotes on Teacher

The secret in education lies in respecting the student.

Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master.

Every teacher should realize the dignity of his calling.

There is in every child a painstaking teacher so skillful that he obtains identical results in all children in all parts of the world. The only language men ever speak perfectly is the one they learn in babyhood, when no one teaches them anything.

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.

Living fearlessly is not the same as never being afraid. It's good to be afraid occasionally. Fear is a great teacher.

Let us pick up our books and our pens. They are our most powerful weapons. One child, one teacher, one book and one pen can change the world.

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

There is in every village a torch - the teacher; and an extinguisher - the priest.

If you don't let a teacher know what level you are -- by asking a question, or revealing your ignorance -- you will not learn or grow

A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child cannot afford to be fooled.

Each of us has a unique part to play in the healing of the world.

The teacher is of course an artist, but being an artist does not mean that he or she can make the profile, can shape the students. What the educator does in teaching is to make it possible for the students to become themselves.

I've tried to handle winning well, so that maybe we'll win again, but I've also tried to handle failure well. If those serve as good examples for teachers and kids, then I hope that would be a contribution I have made to sport. Not just basketball, but to sport.

The thing I loved the most - and still love the most about teaching - is that you can connect with an individual or a group, and see that individual or group exceed their limits.

I emphasize teachers because they are largely left out of the debate. None of the bombastic reports that come from Washington and think tanks telling us what needs to be 'fixed' - I hate such a mechanistic word, as if our schools were automobile engines - ever asks the opinions of teachers.

I encourage teachers to speak in their own voices. Don't use the gibberish of the standards writers.

Teachers deserve respect," I explain. "Why do they get it for free, when everyone else has to earn it?