When you love people and have the desire to make a profound, positive impact upon the world, then will you have accomplished the meaning to live.
- Sasha AzevedoExperience has two things to teach: the first is that we must correct a great deal; the second, that we must not correct too much
- Andy FlowersHistory is philosophy teaching by example.
- Angela MunchelTell me and I`ll forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and I`ll understand.
- Andy DingleyDon`t try to fix the students, fix ourselves first. The good teacher makes the poor student good and the good student superior. When our students fail, we, as teachers, too, have failed.
- Marva CollinsA master can tell you what he expects of you. A teacher, though, awakens your own expectations.
- Patricia NealA man has to learn that he cannot command things, but that he can command himself; that he cannot coerce the wills of others, but that he can mold and master his own will: and things serve him who serves Truth; people seek guidance of him who is master of himself.
- James AllenBe an opener of doors for such as come after thee.
- Ralph Waldo EmersonThe parents have a right to say that no teacher paid by their money shall rob their children of faith in God and send them back to their homes skeptical, or infidels, or agnostics, or atheists
- William Jennings BryanYou are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil.
- Friedrich NietzscheI`ve come to the frightening conclusioin that I am the decisive element in the classroom. It`s my daily mood that makes the weather. As a teacher, I possess a tremendous power to make a child`s life miserable or joyous. I can be a tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration. I can humiliate or humor, hurt or heal. In all situations, it is my response that decides whether a crisis will be escalated or de-escalated and a child humanized or de-humanized.
- Dr. Haim GinottA high-school teacher, after all, is a person deputized by the rest of us to explain to the young what sort of world they are living in, and to defend, if possible, the part their elders are playing in it
- Emile CapouyaWhoever teaches his son teaches not alone his son but also his son`s son, and so on to the end of generations
- Hebrew ProverbIf a child can`t learn the way we teach, maybe we should teach the way they learn.
- Ignacio EstradaBenevolence alone will not make a teacher, nor will learning alone do it. The gift of teaching is a peculiar talent, and implies a need and a craving in the teacher himself.
- John Jay ChapmanMuch education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants.
- John W. GardnerThe authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
- Marcus Tullius CiceroThe ideal condition would be, I admit, that men should be right by instinct; but since we are all likely to go astray, The reasonable thing is to learn from those who can teach
- SophoclesThe mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
- William Arthur Ward