What is a teacher? I’ll tell you: it isn’t someone who teaches something, but someone who inspires the student to give of her best in order to discover what she already knows.
Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.
To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.
A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.
The best brains of the nation may be found on the last benches of the classroom.
Creativity is the key to success in the future, and primary education is where teachers can bring creativity in children at that level.
When learning is purposeful, creativity blossoms. When creativity blossoms, thinking emanates. When thinking emanates, knowledge is fully lit. When knowledge is lit, economy flourishes.
No sanction can stand against ignited minds.
Teaching is a very noble profession that shapes the character, caliber, and future of an individual. If the people remember me as a good teacher, that will be the biggest honour for me.
As a young citizen of India, armed with technology and love for my nation, I realize, a small aim is a crime.
One of the very important characteristics of a student is to question. Let the students ask questions.
I promise to question everything my leaders tell me. I promise to use my critical faculties. I promise to develop my independence of thought. I promise to educate myself so I can make my own judgments.
The future is literally in our hands to mold as we like. But we cannot wait until tomorrow. Tomorrow is now.
You have been given your own work to do. Get to it right now, do your best at it, and don’t be concerned with who is watching you. Create your own merit.
Just begin and the mind grows heated; continue, and the task will be completed!
People who use time wisely spend it on activities that advance their overall purpose in life.
The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.
All of us do not have equal talent, but all of us should have an equal opportunity to develop our talent.
Being a role model is the most powerful form of educating.
In the end, it is the person you become, not the things you have achieved, that is the most important.