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Teachers open the door ... you enter by yourself.
Sep 29, 2025
Teachers, I believe, are the most responsible and important members of society because their professional efforts affect the fate of the earth.
The children are now working as if I did not exist.
The greatest sign of success for a teacher...is to be able to say, "The children are now working as if I did not exist."
The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.
The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-trust. He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him. He will have no disciples.
The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself.
The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.
The task of the excellent teacher is to stimulate 'apparently ordinary' people to unusual effort. The tough problem is not in identifying winners: it is in making winners out of ordinary people.
The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.
I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.
In teaching you cannot see the fruit of a day's work. It is invisible and remains so, maybe for twenty years.
A master can tell you what he expects of you. A teacher, though, awakens your own expectations.
The dream begins with a teacher who believes in you, who tugs and pushes and leads you to the next plateau, sometimes poking you with a sharp stick called 'truth'.
A good teacher is like a candle - it consumes itself to light the way for others.
A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.
He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life.
Warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.
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 art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.
What the teacher is, is more important than what he teaches.
Who dares to teach must never cease to learn.
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.
The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.
No one is more cherished in this world than someone who lightens the burden of another. Thank you.
Teachers are expected to reach unattainable goals with inadequate tools. The miracle is that at times they accomplish this impossible task.
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
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