TEACHER
“A good teacher is like a candle - it consumes itself to light the way for others “
“Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man how to fish and you feed him for a lifetime”
“Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition”
“Good teachers are costly, but bad teachers cost more “
“Teaching should be full of ideas instead of stuffed with facts.”
“The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-distrust. He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him. He will have no disciple”
“A good teacher is a master of simplification and an enemy of simplism”
“We expect teachers to handle teenage pregnancy, substance abuse, and the failings of the family. Then we expect them to educate our children”
“Teaching is leaving a vestige of one self in the development of another. And surely the student is a bank where you can deposit your most precious treasures”
“The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires”
“The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself. “
”A teacher's purpose is not to create students in his own image, but to develop students who can create their own image.”
”What the teacher is, is more important than what he teaches.”
“I hear, and I forget. I see, and I remember. I do, and I understand."
"If you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you've always got”
"No matter how good teaching may be, each student must take the responsibility for his own education”
"People's behavior makes sense if you think about it inn terms of their goals, needs, and motives”
"Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its values only to its scarcity.”
“Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon”
“Teachers should guide without dictating, and participate without dominating “
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