What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the human soul. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
A teacher's job is to take a bunch of live wires and see that they are well-grounded. — Darwin D. Martin Copy Share Image
Teaching people skills without giving them a vision for a better future - a vision based on common values - is only… — Nido R Qubein Copy Share Image
Do not train children to learning by force and harshness, but direct them to it by what amuses their minds. — Plato Copy Share Image
Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
To stimulate life, leaving it then free to develop, to unfold, herein lies the first task of the teacher. — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
Warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child. — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
The single most important thing in a child's performance is the quality of the teacher. Making sure a child spends the maximum… — Michael Gove Copy Share Image
I had an inspirational teacher at my junior school: Peter Nixon. He was enthusiastic, knowledgeable and slightly scary - a good combination… — Stephen Mangan Copy Share Image
Teachers, I believe, are the most responsible and important members of society because their professional efforts affect the fate of the earth. — Helen Caldicott Copy Share Image
What can educators do to foster real intelligence?.. .We can attempt to teach the things that one might imagine the earth would… — David W. Orr Copy Share Image
I am firm in my belief that a teacher lives on and on through his students. Good teaching is forever and the… — Jesse Stuart Copy Share Image
Don't say I was an inspirational teacher - my former pupils would laugh their heads off. I was grossly incompetent, but I… — Greg Davies Copy Share Image
...a student attains 'higher order thinking' when he no longer believes in right or wrong". "A large part of what we call… — Benjamin Bloom Copy Share Image
The good teacher makes the poor student good and the good student superior. — Marva Collins Copy Share Image
Good teaching is more a giving of right questions than a giving of right answers. — Josef Albers Copy Share Image
If I remained silent and you remained silent, then who will teach the ignorant? — Ibn Taymiyyah Copy Share Image
No printed word, nor spoken plea can teach young minds what they should be. Not all the books on all the shelves… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
Teaching should be such that what is offered is perceived as a valuable gift and not as a hard duty. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I did an A Level in Theatre Studies and had a really inspirational teacher, and then I just went on to university. — Jessica Raine Copy Share Image
The true aim of every one who aspires to be a teacher should be, not to impart his own opinions,but to kindle… — Frederick William Robertson Copy Share Image
Education, you know, means broadening, advancing; and if you limit a teacher to only one side of anything, the whole country will… — John T. Scopes Copy Share Image
I have created nothing really beautiful, really lasting, but if I can inspire one of these youngsters to develop the talent I… — Augusta Savage Copy Share Image
My father, Oliver Hynes, was an educator. He was originally just a teacher, a very good one, but then he was promoted… — Garry Hynes Copy Share Image
The task of the excellent teacher is to stimulate 'apparently ordinary' people to unusual effort. The tough problem is not in identifying… — K. Patricia Cross Copy Share Image
If kids come to us from strong, healthy functioning families, it makes our job easier. If they do not come to us… — Barbara Coloroso Copy Share Image
I've come to the frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element in the classroom. It's my personal approach that creates the… — Haim Ginott Copy Share Image
