A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on a cold iron.
– Horace Mann
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
– W. B. Yeats
When the only tool you own is a hammer, every problem begins to resemble a nail.
– Abraham Maslow
By learning you will teach, by teaching you will learn.
– Latin Proverb
Whatever you want to teach, be brief.
– Horace
They may forget what you said but they will never forget how you made them feel.
– Anonymous
Children will not remember you for the material things you provided but for the feeling that you cherished them.
– Richard L. Evans
Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are endless.
– Mother Teresa
It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.
– Albert Einstein
The important thing is not to stop questioning.
– Albert Einstein
Most teachers waste their time by asking questions which are intended to discover what a pupil does not know whereas the true art of questioning has for its purpose to discover what the pupil knows or is capable of knowing.
– Albert Einstein
A good teacher is a master of simplification and an enemy of simplism.
– Louis A. Berman
Education’s purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
– Malcolm Forbes
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper.
– Robert Frost
Education is the best provision for old age.
– Aristotle
The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.
– Aristotle
Do not train children to learning by force and harshness, but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each.
– Plato
I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
– Confucius
Acquire new knowledge whilst thinking over the old, and you may become a teacher of others.
– Confucius
I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.
– Lily Tomlin
Good teacher is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
– Gail Godwin
Instruction begins when you, the teacher, learn from the learner; put yourself in his place so that you may understand… what he learns and the way he understands it.
– Soren Kierkegaard
The secret of teaching is to appear to have known all your life what you learned this afternoon.
– Anonymous
Don’t set your wit against a child.
– Johnathan Swift
The man who can make hard things easy is the educator.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
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