(1734 quotes found)
“The greatest sign of success for a teacher... is to be able to say, "The children are now working as if I did not exist."”
Maria Montessori
“His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even... knowledge, was foolproof.”
Joanne Kathleen Rowling
“America's future will be determined by the home and the school. The child becomes largely what he is taught; hence we must watch what we teach, and how we live.”
Jane Addams
“Teaching is the only major occupation of man for which we have not yet developed tools that make an average person capable of competence and performance. In teaching we rely on the "naturals," the ones who somehow know how to teach.”
Peter F. Drucker
“What nobler employment, or more valuable to the state, than that of the man who instructs the rising generation?”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
“Be an opener of doors for such as come after thee.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“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”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Experience fails to teach where there is no desire to learn.”
George Bernard Shaw
“When you love people and have the desire to make a profound, positive impactupon the world, then will you have accomplished the meaning to live.”
Sasha Azevedo
“More important than the curriculum is the question of the methods of teaching and the spirit in which the teaching is given”
Bertrand Russell
