Teacher And Teaching

(42 votes)   You can't teach a hunter it's wrong to kill.

Hari Dass Baba

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(442 votes)   To teach is to learn twice.

Joseph Joubert
1754-1824, French Moralist

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(411 votes)   One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.

Carl Jung
1875-1961, Swiss Psychiatrist

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(398 votes)   The real difficulty, the difficulty which has baffled the sages of all times, is rather this: how can we make our teaching so potent in the motional life of man, that its influence should withstand the pressure of the elemental psychic forces in the individual?

Albert Einstein
1879-1955, German-born American Physicist

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(382 votes)   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
1880-1956, American Editor, Author, Critic, Humorist

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(379 votes)   A professor is one who talks in someone else's sleep.

W. H. Auden
1907-1973, Anglo-American Poet

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(363 votes)   The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.

William A. Ward
1921-,

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(361 votes)   Nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, British Author, Wit

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(358 votes)   The teacher gives not of his wisdom, but rather of his faith and lovingness.

Kahlil Gibran
1883-1931, Lebanese Poet, Novelist

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(332 votes)   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
1799-1888, American Educator, Social Reformer

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(320 votes)   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
BC 427?-347?, Greek Philosopher

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(319 votes)   The schoolmaster is abroad! And I trust to him armed with his primer against the soldier in full military array.

Jeremy Bentham
1748-1832, British Philosopher, Jurist, Political Theorist

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(317 votes)   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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(261 votes)   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
American Author of ''Life 101''

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(256 votes)   A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.

Thomas Carruthers

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