My school was a happy place. All of us who started our schooling there completed our studies till the eighth standard. I don't remember even a single person dropping out. These days, when i visit schools, both big and small, all across the country, i tell them that true quality does not come from a great building or great facilities or great advertisements. It happens when education is imparted with love by great teachers.
A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.
O ye! who teach the ingenious youth of nations, It mends their morals, never mind the pain.
'Tis pleasing to be school'd in a strange tongue They smile still more.
[A good teacher] brings knowledge and his pupil into a vital relationship; and the object of teaching is to establish that relationship on an intelligible basis. This can only be done ... by appealing to two qualities which are at the bottom of all knowledge, curiosity and observation. They are born with us, every child naturally develops them, and it is the duty of the teacher to direct them to proper ends.
Who dares to teach must never cease to learn.
Such an office demands an upright and incorruptible man, who would take delight in his pious work even without any pay, while a high salary and a position of dignity would attract the meanest characters.
The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards; and curiosity itself can be vivid and wholesome only in proportion as the mind is contented and happy.
The function of the teacher, as we have just defined it, is naturally directed toward a twofold object, interior and exterior, depending upon whether it is applied to the truth the teacher meditates upon and contemplates within himself or to the listeners whom he is teaching.
[T]eachers have to be involved in the community and connected with parents and others who shape the lives of young people. They have to be involved with a whole range of people. They have to bring people together. They have to make sure that students in some way find that the work that they’re doing has something to do with their lives and matters.
Not to keep from error, is the duty of the educator of men, but to guide the erring one, even to let him swill his error out of full cups — that is the wisdom of teachers. Whoever merely tastes of his error, will keep house with it for a long time, … but whoever drains it completely will have to get to know it.
Full well they laughed, with counterfeited glee,Convey'd the dismal tidings when he frown'd.
When I first began teaching, I visited with a former teacher who I respected greatly. I asked him for some advice. He responded without hesitation, "A good teacher must love his students." "Love?" I queried. "Yes, love. When you come to care about each student as your very own child, then you'll become a great teacher."
Daily contact with some teachers is itself all-sided ethical education for the child without a spoken precept. Here, too, the real advantage of male over female teachers,especially for boys, is seen in their superior physical strength,which often, if highly estimated, gives real dignity and commands real respect, and especially in the unquestionably greater uniformity of their moods and their discipline.
A boor cannot be sin-fearing, an ignoramus cannot be pious, a bashful one cannot learn, a short-tempered person cannot teach, nor does anyone who does much business grow wise.
If you are truly serious about preparing your child for the future, don't teach him to subtract - teach him to deduct.
School teachers, taking them by and large, are probably the most ignorant and stupid class of men in the whole group of mental workers.
For the life of me I cannot fathom why we expect so much from teachers and provide them so little in return. In 1940, the average pay of a male teacher was actually 3.6 percent more than what other college-educated men earned. Today it is 60 percent lower. Women teachers now earn 16 percent less than other college-educated women. This bewilders me. [...] There was no Plato without Socrates, and no John Coltrane without Miles Davis.
A good teacher does not draw out; he gives out, and what he gives out is love. And by love I mean approval, or if you like, friendliness, good nature. The good teacher not only understands the child: he approves of the child.
Don't tell us that the only way to teach a child is to spend too much of a year preparing him to fill out a few bubbles on a standardized test; we know that's not true.
What constitutes the teacher is the passion to make scholars, and again and again it happens that the great scholar has no such passion whatever.
Since human beings are highly adaptable it may be possible for an individual with any sort of competence to learn, in the end, according to any teaching strategy. But the experiments show, very clearly indeed, that the rate, quality and durability of learning is crucially dependent upon whether or not the teaching strategy is of a sort that suits the individual
In a democratic state the schoolmaster is afraid of his pupils and flatters them, and the pupils despise both schoolmaster and pedagogues. The young expect the same treatment as the old, and contradict them and quarrel with them. In fact, seniors have to flatter their juniors, in order not to be thought morose old dotards.
Each of these private teachers who work for pay ... inculcates nothing else than these opinions of the multitude which they opine when they are assembled and calls this knowledge wisdom.
What's all the noisy jargon of the schools?
Men must be taught as if you taught them not,And things unknown propos'd as things forgot.
To dazzle let the vain design,To raise the thought and touch the heart, be thine!
Education is unfolding the wings of head and heart together. A true teacher pushes the students out of the nest to strengthen the wings.
It is always the teacher who must learn the most … or else nothing real has happened in the exchange.
When I am forgotten, as I shall be,Say, I taught thee.
We'll set thee to school to an ant, to teach thee there's no labouring i' the winter.
Schoolmasters will I keep within my house,To mine own children in good bringing up.
I do present you with a man of mine,To instruct her fully in those sciences.
He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.
Neither my life in school nor my life away from school is particularly blissful. My car breaks down, I quarrel with my friends, I get sick, and I worry about my children. I have to keep a watch on my moods, needs, biases, weaknesses, and limits in order to see how they are affecting my work. If I can monitor how my emotions are at play in my classroom, I can better put a break on them when they are destructive, and better allow my joyful, level, nurturant side to dominate.
To teach is to touch the heart and impel it to action.
I do not allow a woman to teach or to usurp authority over the man.
The best teachers are those who show you where to look, but don't tell you what to see.
We must not contradict, but instruct him that contradicts us; for a madman is not cured by another running mad also.
What's a' your jargon o' your schools,If honest nature made you fools.
He is wise who can instruct us and assist us in the business of daily virtuous living.
You cannot teach old dogs new tricks.
Seek to delight, that they may mend mankind,And, while they captivate, inform the mind.
The sounding jargon of the schools.
The twig is so easily bended My love is the law of the school.
There is no teaching until the pupil is brought into the same state or principle in which you are; a transfusion takes place; he is you, and you are he; there is a teaching; and by no unfriendly chance or bad company can he ever quite lose the benefit.
Instruction does not prevent waste of time or mistakes; and mistakes themselves are often the best teachers of all.
A boy is better unborn than untaught.
Grave is the Master's look; his forehead wearsAt Sinai's foot the Giver of the Law.
If you be a lover of instruction, you will be well instructed.
Speak to the earth, and it shall teach thee.
Whilst that the childe is young, let him be instructed in vertue and lytterature.
All jargon of the schools.
I am not a teacher: only a fellow-traveller of whom you asked the way. I pointed ahead—ahead of myself as well as of you.
A little bench of heedless bishops here,And there a chancellor in embryo.
Whoe'er excels in what we prize,In boarding-schools may have his choice.
Better fed than taught.
Delightful task! to rear the tender Thought,urpose in the glowing breast.
A man's scholarship may be perfect, his character admirable, and yet, for want of the power to control subordinates and govern boys, he may be wholly unfit for a schoolmaster.
An original thinker and able teacher very soon attracts a large class and vice versa.
Let the soldier be abroad if he will, he can do nothing in this age. There is another personage, a personage less imposing in the eyes of some, perhaps insignificant. The schoolmaster is abroad, and I trust to him, armed with his primer, against the soldier in full military array.
A master should be paid liberally, in order to secure a person properly qualified.