The VoiceThere is a voice inside of youThat whispers all day long,"I feel this is right for me,I know that this is wrong."No teacher, preacher, parent, friendOr wise man can decideWhat's right for you...
Teachers are not supposed to be repositories of information which they dish out. That is from an age when there were no other repositories of information, other than books or teachers, neither of whic...
Do you remember your first real teacher? Your first real teacher is your first sorrow, your first crying!
The world of literature has everything in it, and it refuses to leave anything out. I have read like a man on fire my whole life because the genius of English teachers touched me with the dazzling bea...
Those who know how to think need no teachers.
I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Education must begin with the solution of the student-teacher contradiction, by reconciling the poles of the contradiction so that both are simultaneously teachers and students.
No institution can become the cradle of leadership, until its teachers break their manacles of rugged dogmas.
I realized how subversive Ruth was then, not because she drew pictures of nude women that got misused by her peers, but because she was more talented than her teachers. She was the quietest kind of re...
When teachers doubt your potential, show them how wrong they truly are.
[W]hat people truly desire is access to the knowledge and information that ultimately lead to a better life--the collected wisdom of the ages found only in one place: a well-stocked library.To the tea...
I know what you are known as . . . but to me, you will always be Tom Riddle. It is one of the irritating things about old teachers. I am afraid that they never quite forget their charges’ youthful beg...
Fifty? Harry gasped.Fifty points each, said Professor McGonagall, breathing heavily.Professor — please —You can’t —Don’t tell me what I can and can’t do, Potter. I’ve never been more ashamed of Gryffi...
Teachers need to feel they are trusted. They must be allowed some leeway to use their imagination; otherwise, teaching loses all sense of wonder and excitement.
He who can does. He who can't teaches.
When you study great teachers... you will learn much more from their caring and hard work than from their style.
As a student I learned from wonderful teachers and ever since then I've thought everyone is a teacher.
The children now love luxury. They have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise.
There is no crisis to which academics will not respond with a seminar.