It would be a great advantage to some schoolmasters if they would steal two hours a day from their pupils and give their own minds the benefit of the robbery.
The authority of those who profess to teach is often a positive hindrance to those who desire to learn.
We need teachers. We need to be teachers. Knowing when for each, is wisdom
We should always respect our teachers, because transforming children into knowledge-oriented young people is a precious and extremely difficult job.
Of course, we are drawn to teachers who unconsciously mirror our own psychology. None of us are clean. We all make mistakes. It's the repetition of those mistakes and the refusal to look at them that...
I only had three teachers, really, that were interesting, and all three of them were women.
We teach what we need to learn and write what we need to know.
Schools and schoolmasters, as we have them today, are not popular as places of education and teachers, but rather prisons and turnkeys in which children are kept to prevent them disturbing and chapero...
You can't stop a teacher when they want to do something. They just do it.
Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.
They inspire you, they entertain you, and you end up learning a ton even when you don't know it
How do we change the way science is taught?Ask anybody how many teachers truly made a difference in their life, and you never come up with more than the fingers on one hand. You remember their names,...
Teaching is a calling too. And I've always thought that teachers in their way are holy - angels leading their flocks out of the darkness.
The first duty of a lecturer- 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 for ever.
The secret of teaching is to appear to have known all your life what you learned this afternoon.
A high-school teacher after all is a person deputized by the rest of us to explain to the young what sort of world they are living in and to defend if possible the part their elders are playing i...
The purpose of teachers should be to add to the sum of human knowers rather than the sum of human knowledge.
There are two types of teachers. The ones who teach you to use the text to find answers, and the ones who teach you to use the text to find another whole world of answers.
Francie always remembered what that kind teacher told her. You know, Francie, a lot of people would think that these stories that you’re making up all the time were terrible lies because they are not...
The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that.