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Teachers open the door ... you enter by yourself.
Oct 2, 2025
Teachers, I believe, are the most responsible and important members of society because their professional efforts affect the fate of the earth.
The good teacher makes the poor student good and the good student superior.
True teachers are those who use themselves as bridges over which they invite their students to cross; then, having facilitated their crossing, joyfully collapse, encouraging them to create their own.
The human mind is our fundamental resource.
Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre.
I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.
Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.
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.
One good teacher in a lifetime may sometimes change a delinquent into a solid citizen.
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.
We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.
The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education.
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.
Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource.
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.
Thank you for answering the call to be teachers. Thank you for the enduring impression you've made in the lives you have touched.
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.
I've seen and met angels wearing the disguise of ordinary people living ordinary lives.
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.
Good teaching is more a giving of right questions than a giving of right answers.
What the teacher is, is more important than what he teaches.
The job of an educator is to teach students to see vitality in themselves
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.
It's easy to make a buck. It's a lot tougher to make a difference.
Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.
No one is more cherished in this world than someone who lightens the burden of another. Thank you.
It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.
A teacher who can arouse a feeling for one single good action, for one single good poem, accomplishes more than he who fills our memory with rows and rows of natural objects, classified with name and form.
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.
Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
Genius without education is like silver in the mine.
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