• Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each.
Plato (BC 427-BC 347) Greek philosopher.
• In teaching others we teach ourselves.
Proverb
• A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.
Henry Brooks Adams (1838-1918) American historian, journalist and novelist.
• He who dares to teach must never cease to learn.
Unknown Source
* 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.
Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961) Swiss psychologist and psychiatrist.
• If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed; if in terms of ten years, plant trees; if in terms of 100 years, teach the people.
Confucius (BC 551-BC 479) Chinese philosopher.
• I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
Socrates (BC 469-BC 399) Greek philosopher of Athens
• It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.
Albert Einstein (1879-1955) German-Swiss-U.S. scientist.
• I am not a teacher, but an awakener.Robert Frost (1875-1963) American Poet.
• The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself.
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton (1803-1873) British politician, poet and critic.
• You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself.
Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) Italian Astronomer and Mathematician.
• The secret of teaching is to appear to have known all your life what you just learned this morning.
Unknown Source
• We will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught.
Unknown Source
• The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.
Aristotle (384 BC-322 BC) Greek philosopher.
• A professor is one who talks in someone else's sleep.
W. H. Auden (1907-1973) English-born poet and man of letters.
• Most subjects at universities are taught for no other purpose than that they may be re-taught when the students become teachers.
Georg C. Lichtenberg (1742-1799) German scientist, satirist and anglophile.
• The man who can make hard things easy is the educator.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) U.S. poet, essayist and lecturer.
• When you introduce a moral lesson, let it be brief.
Horace (BC 65-8) Latin lyric poet.
• To teach is to learn twice.
Joseph Joubert (1754-1824) French moralist.
• Teaching is of more importance than urging.
Martin Luther (1483-1546) German priest and scholar.
• The truth is that the average schoolmaster, on all the lower levels, is and always must be essentially and next door to an idiot, for how can one imagine an intelligent man engaging in so puerile an avocation?
Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956) American journalist, satirist and social critic.
• The highest function of the teacher consists not so much in imparting knowledge as in stimulating the pupil in its love and pursuit.
Unknown Source
• To know how to suggest is the great art of teaching. To attain it we must be able to guess what will interest; we must learn to read the childish soul as we might a piece of music. Then, by simply changing the key, we keep up the attraction and vary the song.
Henri Frédéric Amiel (1821-1881) Swiss writer.
• The first duty of a lecturer is to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up between the pages of your notebooks and keep on the mantelpiece forever.
Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) British novelist and essayist.
• To be good is noble, but to teach others how to be good is nobler and less trouble.
Mark Twain (1835-1910) U.S. humorist, writer, and lecturer.
• A gifted teacher is as rare as a gifted doctor, and makes far less money.
Unknown Source
• He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) Irish writer.
• What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) Irish writer.
• He who does not research has nothing to teach.
Proverb
• He who undertakes to be his own teacher has a fool for a pupil.
German proverb
• Lessons of wisdom have the most power over us when they capture the heart through the groundwork of a story, which engages the passions.
Laurence Sterne (1713-1768) British writer.
• Children should be led into the right paths, not by severity, but by persuasion.
Terence (195/185 BC-159 BC) Playwright of the Roman Republic.
• Nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
• Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) Irish poet and dramatist.
Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) Irish poet and dramatist.
• In the education of children there is nothing like alluring the interest and affection, otherwise you only make so many asses laden with books.
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne (1533-1592) French philosopher and essayist.
• A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on a cold iron.
Horace Mann (1796-1859) U.S. educator.
• Teaching isn't one-tenth as effective as training.
Horace Mann (1796-1859) U.S. educator.
• No one ever teaches well who wants to teach, or governs well who wants to govern.
Plato (BC 427-BC 347) Greek philosopher.
• Whatever you teach, be brief; what is quickly said the mind readily receives and faithfully retains, while everything superfluous runs over as from a full container. Who knows much says least.
Proverb
• To teach well, we need not say all that we know, Successful teachers are effective in spite of the psychological theories they suffer under.
• Never offer to teach a fish to swim.
Proverb
• Knowledge exists to be imparted.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) U.S. poet, essayist and lecturer.
• A schoolteacher or professor cannot educate individuals, he educates only species.
Georg C. Lichtenberg (1742-1799) German scientist, satirist and anglophile.
• It is easier for a tutor to command than to teach.
John Locke (1632-1704) English philosopher.
• A schoolmaster should have an atmosphere of awe, and walk wonderingly, as if he was amazed at being himself.
Walter Bagehot (1826-1877) British economist.
• The schoolmaster is abroad! And I trust to him armed with his primer against the soldier in full military array.
Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832) British philosopher.
• The world of knowledge takes a crazy turn when teachers themselves are taught to learn.
Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956) German writer.
• A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher who is not teaching.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936) British journalist, novelist and poet.
• 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.
Amos Bronson Alcott (1799-1888) American educator.
Those who know how to think need no teachers.
Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948) Preeminent leader of Indian nationalism.
• Well had the boding tremblers learned to trace the day's disasters in his morning face.
Oliver Goldsmith (1728-1774) Irish writer, poet, and physician.
• The real difficulty, the difficulty which has baffled the sages of all times, is rather this: how can we make our teaching so potent in the motional life of man, that its influence should withstand the pressure of the elemental psychic forces in the individual?
Albert Einstein (1879-1955) German-Swiss-U.S. scientist.
• Once more I would adopt the graver style -- a teacher should be sparing of his smile.
William Cowper (1731-1800) British poet.
Collected by Toumache Abdelghani.
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