Educating Others Quotes

I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.

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

Whoever wants to be a leader should educate himself before educating others. Before preaching to others he should first practice himself. Whoever educates himself and improves his own morals is superior to the man who tries to teach and train others.

If a teacher does not involve himself, his values, his commitments, in the course of discussion, why should the students?

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.

The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.

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

The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.

The children are now working as if I did not exist.

The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without his teacher.

There are two kinds of teachers: the kind that fill you with so much quail shot that you can't move, and the kind that just gives you a little prod behind and you jump to the skies.

A good teacher must be able to put himself in the place of those who find learning hard.

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

The greatest sign of success for a teacher...is to be able to say, "The children are now working as if I did not exist."

A teacher should have maximal authority, and minimal power.

A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.

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.

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

I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.

Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.

The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.

I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.

The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.

I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.

A master can tell you what he expects of you. A teacher, though, awakens your own expectations.

The dream begins with a teacher who believes in you, who tugs and pushes and leads you to the next plateau, sometimes poking you with a sharp stick called 'truth'.

Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.

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

My heart is singing for joy this morning! A miracle has happened! The light of understanding has shone upon my little pupil's mind, and behold, all things are changed!

The true aim of every one who aspires to be a teacher should be, not to impart his own opinions,but to kindle minds.

We can go for days, weeks, and even months without saying or thinking the word 'education.' And yet, day in and day out, we are educating others and being educated ourselves. In the narrower sense of education - those classrooms and buildings and campuses where teachers and taught are brought together for purposes stated and unstated, for outcomes intended and unintended - we have all been profoundly affected by the pattern of days essentially not of our own making.

Warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.

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.

The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.

The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.

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

I am always hesitant to call myself an activist, mostly out of respect for the activists who are using their bodies and voices to protest or activists online who are constantly engaging and educating others.

Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward.

I saw as a teacher how, if you take that spark of learning that those children have, and you ignite it, you can take a child from any background to a lifetime of creativity and accomplishment.