The job of an educator is to teach students to see vitality in themselves.
Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don’t recognize them.
Your teacher might be a child who takes you by the hand and asks you a question that you hadn't considered before, and your answer to the child is your answer to yourself.
Our greatest natural resource is the minds of our children.
Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.
High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation.
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 improvement of understanding is for two ends: first, our own increase of knowledge; secondly, to enable us to deliver that knowledge to others.
Education is learning what you didn’t even know you didn’t know.
Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.
Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.
Students deserve great teachers. And teachers deserve the support they need to become great.
A teacher is never a giver of truth; he is a guide, a pointer to the truth that each student must find for himself.
If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself.
Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.
He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.
I’m not a teacher: only a fellow traveler of whom you asked the way. I pointed ahead – ahead of myself as well as you.
How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these.
If I remained silent and you remained silent, then who will teach the ignorant?
You haven’t taught until they’ve learned.