True Teacher Quotes

A true teacher would never tell you what to do. But he would give you the knowledge with which you could decide what would be best for you to do.

A true teacher doesn't teach you to think like him, but to think without him.

The true teachers are those who help us think for ourselves.

The Master said, "A true teacher is one who, keeping the past alive, is also able to understand the present."

Here, let me break it down for you, so you know what I say is true: Teachers? Teachers make a difference! Now what about you?

True teachers not only impart knowledge and method but awaken the love of learning by their own reflected love.

A true teacher should penetrate to whatever is vital in his pupil, and develop that by the light and heat of his own intelligence.

The true teacher is within us. A good teacher is someone who can help you to go back and touch the true teacher within, because you already have the insight within you.

True teachers of enlightenment are hard to find. The popular ones, of course, usually aren't enlightened because how could they be? They just tell people what they want to hear.

A true teacher defends his students against his own personal influences.

A teacher who establishes rapport with the taught, becomes one with them, learns more from them than he teaches them. He who learns nothing from his disciples is, in my opinion, worthless. Whenever I talk with someone I learn from him. I take from him more than I give him.

The true teacher of love is the heart. The heart is very, very wise. It makes mistakes from time to time, but it has a wisdom all of its own.

The teacher is the one who gets the most out of the lessons, and that the true teacher is a learner.

A true teacher does not terrorize ignorant students, because a true teacher knows that it is his job to cure ignorance.

History is the only true teacher, the revolution the best school for the proletariat.

A professor can never better distinguish himself in his work than by encouraging a clever pupil, for the true discovers are among them, as comets amongst the stars.

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 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 true aim of every one who aspires to be a teacher should be, not to impart his own opinions,but to kindle minds.

The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.