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Why are we never quite at ease in the presence of a schoolmaster? Because we are conscious that he is not quite at his ease in ours. He is awkward, and out of place in the society of his equals. He comes like Gulliver from among his little people, and he cannot fit the stature of his understanding to yours.
-Charles Lamb
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A schoolteacher or professor cannot educate individuals, he educates only species.
-G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenberg
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Most subjects at universities are taught for no other purpose than that they may be re-taught when the students become teachers.
-G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenberg
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It is easier for a tutor to command than to teach.
-John Locke
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Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books.
-Sir John Lubbock
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Teaching is of more importance than urging.
-Martin Luther
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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
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Teaching isn't one-tenth as effective as training.
-Horace Mann
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What office is there which involves more responsibility, which requires more qualifications, and which ought, therefore, to be more honorable, than that of teaching?
-Harriet Martineau
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Your Master Teacher knows all you need to learn, the perfect timing for your learning it, and the ideal way of teaching it to you. You don't create a Master Teacher -- that's already been done. You discover your Master Teacher.
-Peter McWilliams
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The truth is that the average schoolmaster, on all the lower levels, is and always must be essentially and next door to an idiot, for how can one imagine an intelligent man engaging in so puerile an avocation?
-H. L. Mencken
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In the education of children there is nothing like alluring the interest and affection, otherwise you only make so many asses laden with books.
-Michel de Montaigne
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The teacher must derive not only the capacity, but the desire, to observe natural phenomena. In our system, she must become a passive, much more than an active, influence, and her passivity shall be composed of anxious scientific curiosity and of absolute respect for the phenomenon which she wishes to observe. The teacher must understand and feel her position of observer: the activity must lie in the phenomenon.
-Maria Montessori
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No bubble is so iridescent or floats longer than that blown by the successful teacher.
-William Osler
Address, Glasgow, October 4, 1911
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There is no accountability in the public school system - except for coaches. You know what happens to a losing coach. You fire him. A losing teacher can go on losing for 30 years and then go to glory.
-H. Ross Perot
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No one ever teaches well who wants to teach, or governs well who wants to govern.
-Plato
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Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each.
-Plato
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The dream begins with a teacher who believes in you, who tugs and pushes and leads you to the next plateau, sometimes poking you with a sharp stick called truth.
-Dan Rather
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The true aim of everyone who aspires to be a teacher should be, not to impart his own opinions, but to kindle minds.
-Frederick William Robertson
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I believe that the testing of the student's achievements in order to see if he meets some criterion held by the teacher, is directly contrary to the implications of therapy for significant learning.
-Carl R. Rogers
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An educator should think of a child as a garderner thinks of a plant, as something to be made to grow by having the right soil and the right kind amount of water. If your roses fail to bloom, it does not occur to you to whip them, but you should try to find out what has been amiss in your treatment of them... The important thing is what the children do, and not what they do not do. And what they do, if it is to have value, must be a spontaneous expression of their own vital energy.
-Bertrand Russell
Life Without Fear : New Hopes for a Changing World
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We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled, but as candles to be lit.
-Robert H. Shaffer
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What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.
-George Bernard Shaw
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He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.
-George Bernard Shaw
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When teaching, light a fire, don't fill a bucket.
-Dan Snow
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Books about Teaching
