Quotes on Teaching

Headmasters have powers at their disposal with which Prime ministers have never yet been invested.

Fear is what prevents the flowering of the mind.

Be careful with words, they're dangerous. Be wary of them. They begat either demons or angels. It's up to you to give life to one or the other. Be careful, I tell you, nothing is as dangerous as giving free rein to words

All work is empty save when there is love.

A government which uses force to maintain its rule teaches the oppressed to use force to oppose it.

The ability to take misfortune and make something good come of it is a rare gift. Those who possess it are ..said to have resilience or courage.

After the final no there comes a yes_x000D_ And on that yes the future world depends.

Let the main object... to seek and to find a method of instruction, by which teachers may teach less, but learners learn more.

The trouble is that thinking looks like loafing. Who wants to pay people for daydreaming?

Teaching is the canny art of intellectual temptation

The overwhelming number of teachers ...are unable to name or describe a theory of learning that underlies what they do.

Schools must inquire deeper into their own practices, explore new ways to motivate their learners, make use of learning styles, introduce multiple intelligences, integrate learning, and teach thinking, and in the process discover the passion and moral purpose that makes teaching exciting and effective.

Select such subjects that your pupils cannot walk out without seeing them. Train your pupils to be observers, and have them provided with the specimens about which you speak. If you can find nothing better, take a house-fly or a cricket, and let each one hold a specimen and examine it as you talk.

We hear the words we have spoken, feel our own blow as we give it, or read in the bystander's eyes the success or failure of our conduct.

The same is true of Love, and the instinctive desire to please those whom we love. The teacher who succeeds in getting herself loved by the pupils will obtain results which one of a more forbidding temperament finds it impossible to secure.

I am dealing with people and not with things. And, because I am dealing with people, I cannot refuse my wholehearted and loving attention, even in personal matters, where I see that a student is in need of such attention.

The role of the teacher remains the highest calling of a free people. To the teacher, America entrusts her most precious resource, her children; and asks that they be prepared ... to face the rigors of individual participation in a democratic society.

As a student I learned from wonderful teachers and ever since then I've thought everyone is a teacher.

My love is thine to teach; teach it but how, And thou shalt see how apt it is to learn. Any hard lesson that may do thee good.

The road to freedom, here and everywhere, begins in the classroom.

Good teaching is forever being on the cutting edge of a child's competence.