Doe Quote by Confucius

Whether the teacher is authoritarian, undisciplined, competent, incompetent, serious, irresponsible, involved, a lover of people and of life, cold, angry with the world, bureaucratic,…

— Paulo Freire

Often nothing keeps the pupil on the move but his faith in his teacher, whose mastery is now beginning to dawn on him ....…

— Eugen Herrigel

The role of the teacher is to make sure that the practice is pure. By guiding the student, you make sure that they are…

— Frederick Lenz

The instructor can scarcely give sensibility where it is essentially wanting, nor talent to the unpercipient block. But he can cultivate and direct the…

— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-trust. He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that…

— Amos Bronson Alcott

A teacher is not someone you need perpetually. You need them to show you how to get through the doorway; but once you get…

— Frederick Lenz

“Ideal teachers are those who use themselves as bridges over which they invite their students to cross, then having facilitated their crossing, joyfully collapse,…

— Nikos Kazantzakis

A good teacher not only knows the way but shows the way.

— Anonymous

A good teacher feels his way, looking for response.

— Paul Goodman

“Our guides, we pretend, must be sinless: as if those were not often the best teachers who only yesterday got corrected for their mistakes.”

— George Eliot

I will venture to maintain that where the teacher is not pleasing to the pupil, there is no education.

— Xenophon

“View everyone around you as a teacher; from some, seek to learn what not to do and from others, what to do.”

— Amey Hegde