Quotes on Teachers And Teaching

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

There will always be rocks in the road ahead of us. They will be stumbling blocks or stepping stones; it all depends on how you use them.

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.

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.

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.

Any genuine teaching will result, if successful, in someone's knowing how to bring about a better condition of things than existed earlier.

Teaching is the only major occupation of man for which we have not yet developed tools that make an average person capable of competence and performance. In teaching we rely on the 'naturals,' the ones who somehow know how to teach.

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

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.

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.

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.

Acquire new knowledge whilst thinking over the old, and you may become a teacher of others.

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

The most important part of teaching is to teach what it is to know.

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.

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.