Quotes on Teachers And Teaching

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.

Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.

None of us got where we are solely by pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps.

I believe that the testing of the student's achievements in order to see if he meets some criterion held by the teacher, is directly contrary to the implications of therapy for significant learning.

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

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.

The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life.

A man should first direct himself in the way he should go. Only then should he instruct others.

A good teacher, like a good entertainer first must hold his audience's attention, then he can teach his lesson.

A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.

What nobler employment, or more valuable to the state, than that of the man who instructs the rising generation?

Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.

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

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.

The human mind is our fundamental resource.

The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-trust. He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him. He will have no disciples.

In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something else.

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.

Be an opener of doors for such as come after thee.