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Teacher Quotes
A teacher affects
eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops. The beginning is
the most important part of the work. I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to
think about besides homework. It is the supreme
art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge. Everything should
be made as simple as possible, but not simpler. A man should never
be ashamed to own he has been wrong, which is but saying in other words
that he is wiser today than he was yesterday. There are two ways
to slide easily through life: to believe everything or to doubt
everything. Both ways save us from thinking. Education should
turn out the pupil with something he knows well and something he can do
well. The true teacher
defends his pupils against his own personal influences. Awaken people’s
curiosity. It is enough to open minds, do not overload them. Put there
just a spark. Sometimes one man
with courage is a majority. You can’t direct
the wind but you can adjust the sails.
A good education is like a savings account; the more you
put into it, the richer you are. Even the clearest
water appears opaque at great depth. I know but one
freedom and that is the freedom of the mind. Let the potential
artist in our children come to life that they may surmount industrial
monotonies and pressures. There is no
education like adversity. A man should first
direct himself in the way he should go. Only then should he instruct
others. The critical factor
is not class size but rather the nature of the teaching as it affects
learning. The basic idea
behind teaching is to teach people what they need to know. Where there is an
open mind there will always be a frontier. By viewing the old
we learn the new. I hear, and I
forget. I see, and I remember. I do, and I understand. Give me a fish and
I eat for a day. Teach me to fish and I eat for a lifetime. To think is to
differ. When asked what
learning was the most necessary, he said, “Not to unlearn what you have
learned!” Whoever neglects
learning in his youth, loses the past and is dead to the future. You cannot teach a
man anything; you can only help him find it within himself. To do just the
opposite is a form of imitation. To me the sole hope
of human salvation lies in teaching. Blessed is the man
who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of
the fact. A child educated
only at school is an uneducated child. People learn more
quickly by doing something or seeing something done. Creative activity
is not a superimposed, extraneous task against which the body, or brain
protests, but an orchestration of ... joyful doing. Human history
becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe. It’s what you learn
after you know it all that counts. They know enough
who know how to learn. Anyone who stops
learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning
stays young. I have been
maturing as a teacher. New experiences bring new sensitivities and
flexibility. A talent is formed
in stillness, a character in the world’s torrent. We think too much
about effective methods of teaching and not enough about effective
methods of learning. No matter how good
teaching may be, each student must take the responsibility for his own
education. The origin of
thinking is some perplexity, confusion or doubt. One can think
effectively only when one is willing to endure suspense and to undergo
the trouble of searching. Education...is a
painful, continual and difficult work to be done in kindness, by
watching, by warning: by praise, but above all, by example. An excellent
plumber is infinitely more admirable than an incompetent philosopher.
Good teaching is
more a giving of right questions than a giving of right answers. The job of an
educator is to teach students to see the vitality in themselves. To teach is to
learn twice. Men learn while
they teach. The great pilot can
sail even when his canvass is rent. The limits of your
language are the limits of your world. What greater or
better gift can we offer the republic than to teach and instruct our
youth? I am not ashamed to
confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know. If I had more time,
I would have written a shorter letter. I have gathered a
posy of other men’s flowers and only the thread that bonds them is my
own. Trifles make
perfection, and perfection is no trifle. There is more to
life than increasing its speed. Opposites are not
contradictory but complementary. An artist is always
out of step with the time. He has to be. Only the mind
cannot be sent into exile. The important thing
in life is not the triumph but the struggle. An object in
possession seldom contains the same charm that it had in pursuit. The mind is not a
vessel to be filled, but a fire to be ignited. Every artist was at
first an amateur. To arrive at the
simple is difficult. Reinventing the
wheel is a process. The chief cause of
human errors is to be found in the prejudices picked up in childhood.
Education can be
dangerous. It is very difficult to make it not dangerous. In fact, it is
almost impossible. Praise, like gold
and diamonds, owes its values only to its scarcity. The young don’t
know what age is, and the old forget what youth was. Being entirely
honest with oneself is a good exercise. When inspiration
does not come to me, I go half way to meet it. One must learn by
doing the thing; for though you think you know it, you have no
certainty, until you try. It is not often
that we use language correctly; usually we use it incorrectly, though we
understand each others meaning. Wonder is the
desire for knowledge. To define is to
destroy, to suggest is to create. No one can become
really educated without having pursued some study in which he took no
interest. People’s behavior
makes sense if you think about it in terms of their goals, needs, and
motives. I put the relation
of a fine teacher to a student just below the relation of a mother to a
son. The best way to
know life is to love many things. Learning is never
done without errors and defeat. Give me four years
to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.
In the practical
use of our intellect, forgetting is as important as remembering. Come forth into the
light of things, let nature be your teacher. God
understood our thirst for knowledge, and our need to be led by someone
wiser; The empires of the
future are the empires of the mind. You can observe a
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