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The rules of the world are changing. It is time for the rules of teaching and teachers' work to change with them.
Sep 25, 2025
There's no word in the language I revere more than 'teacher.' My heart sings when a kid refers to me as his teacher, and it always has. I've honored myself and the entire family of man by becoming a teacher.
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.
Quite frankly, teachers are the only profession that teach our children.
Most of us end up with no more than five or six people who remember us. Teachers have thousands of people who remember them for the rest of their lives.
The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.
The man (or woman) who can make hard things easy is the educator.
The good teacher makes the poor student good and the good student superior.
A good teacher can inspire hope, ignite the imagination, and instill a love of learning.
The average teacher explains complexity; the gifted teacher reveals simplicity.
True teachers are those who use themselves as bridges over which they invite their students to cross; then, having facilitated their crossing, joyfully collapse, encouraging them to create their own.
Be an opener of doors for such as come after thee.
What office is there which involves more responsibility, which requires more qualifications, and which ought, therefore, to be more honorable, than that of teaching?
The human mind is our fundamental resource.
Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
Modern cynics and skeptics... see no harm in paying those to whom they entrust the minds of their children a smaller wage than is paid to those to whom they entrust the care of their plumbing.
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 mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.
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."
Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.
Education makes a people easy to lead but difficult to drive easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.
The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the human soul.
I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
To me the sole hope of human salvation lies in teaching.
A good teacher is like a candle - it consumes itself to light the way for others.
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.
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. That every man may receive at least a moderate education...appears to be an object of vital importance...
A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.
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.
He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life.
Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom.
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.
The true aim of every one who aspires to be a teacher should be, not to impart his own opinions,but to kindle minds.
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.
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.
Good teaching is more a giving of right questions than a giving of right answers.
What the teacher is, is more important than what he teaches.
The job of an educator is to teach students to see vitality in themselves
I never teach my pupils, I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.
Who dares to teach must never cease to learn.
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
Anyone who keeps learning stays young.
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.
Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward.
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.