93 quotes found
“You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.”
“It is easier to write a book with footnotes than the same book written so that children can understand it.”
“I never teach my pupils, I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.”
“Ive come to a frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element in the classroom. Its my personal approach that creates the climate. Its my daily mood that makes the weather. As a teacher, I po...”
“Experience teaches only the teachable.”
“The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without a teacher.”
“A child who is protected from all controversial ideas is as vulnerable as a child who is protected from every germ. The infection, when it comes- and it will come- may overwhelm the system, be it t...”
“Evil prevails when good people do nothing.”
“The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence.”
“You can't really teach a kid anything: you can only show him the way and motivate him to learn it himself.”
“In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something else.”
“You will search the world over and not find a nonsuperstitious community. As long as there is ignorance, there will be adherence to superstition. Dispelling ignorance is the only solution. That is ...”
“The main reason I became a teacher is that I like being the first one to introduce kids to words and music and people and numbers and concepts and idea that they have never heard about or thought a...”
“To a teacher of languages there comes a time when the world is but a place of many words and man appears a mere talking animal not much more wonderful than a parrot.”
“People who teach you cram old ideas, old views, old ways, into you. Like covering plants with layer after layer of old earth; it's no wonder the poor things so rarely come up fresh and green.”
“I dedicate the merit of the occasion to all beings. This gesture of universal friendship has been likened to a drop of fresh spring water. If we put it on a rock in the sunshine, it will soon evapo...”
“To instruct calls for energy, and to remain almost silent, but watchful and helpful, while students instruct themselves, calls for even greater energy. To see someone fall (which will teach him not...”
“Do they li”
“If you look at your class as anything less than life or death, you do not deserve to be a teacher. If you walk into the classroom ten minutes late, week after week, you need to resign. You wouldn't...”
“Instead, we try to give them affection, confidence and guidance, more or less in that order, because experience has shown us that those are their most immediate needs.”
