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A teacher who is attempting to teach, without inspiring the pupil with a
desire to learn, is hammering on a cold iron. -Horace Mann, educational reformer (1796-1859) |
Former President of India, A. P. J. Abdul Kalam |
Subsequent entries all from preceding url, a compilation from an
address by A. P. J. Abdul Kalam, engineer, professor, chancellor Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology (IIST), 11th President of India 2002-2007. |
| A good teacher is like a candle - it consumes itself to light the way for others. ~Author Unknown | Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man how to fish and you feed him for a lifetime. | Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition. ~Jacques Barzun |
| Good teachers are costly, but bad teachers cost more. ~Bob Talbert | Teaching should be full of ideas instead of stuffed with facts. ~Author Unknown | 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 |
| A good teacher is a master of simplification and an enemy of simplism. ~Louis A. Berman | We expect teachers to handle teenage pregnancy, substance abuse, and the failings of the family. Then we expect them to educate our children. ~John Sculley | Teaching is leaving a vestige of one self in the development of another. And surely the student is a bank where you can deposit your most precious treasures. ~Eugene P. Bertin |
| The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires. ~William Arthur Ward | The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself. ~Edward Bulwer-Lytton | A teacher's purpose is not to create students in his own image, but to develop students who can create their own image. ~Author Unknown |
| What the teacher is, is more important than what he teaches. ~Karl Menninger | I hear, and I forget. I see, and I remember. I do, and I understand. - Chinese Proverb | If you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you've always got - NLP adage |
| No matter how good teaching may be, each student must take the responsibility for his own education. - John Carolus S. J. | People's behavior makes sense if you think about it in terms of their goals, needs, and motives. - Thomas Mann | Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its values only to its scarcity. - Samuel Johnson |
| Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon - E. M. Forster | Teachers should guide without dictating, and participate without dominating. - C.B. Neblette | Teach your children by what you are, not just by what you say. - Jane Revell & Susan Norman |
| The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn. - Cicero | The basic idea behind teaching is to teach people what they need to know. - Carl Rogers | The job of an educator is to teach students to see the vitality in themselves. - Joseph Campbell |
| The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be ignited. - Plutarch | To me the sole hope of human salvation lies in teaching. - George Bernard Shaw | To teach is to learn twice. - Joseph Joubert |
| Try to present at least three options. One is no choice at all. Two creates a dilemma. With three you begin to have real choice and flexibility - Jane Revell & Susan Norman | We think too much about effective methods of teaching and not enough about effective methods of learning. - John Carolus S. J. | What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child. - George Bernard Shaw |
| Who dares to teach must never cease to learn. - John Cotton Dana | You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself. - Galielo Galilei |