Category: Teacher quotes

I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently

Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most

If you can’t explain it to a six year old, you don’t understand

It’s fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure

When you teach your son, you teach your son’s son

If you’ve told a child a thousand times and he still does not understand, then it is not the child who is the slow learner

Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know

When the student is ready, the teacher will appear

A teacher is never a giver of truth; he is a guide, a pointer to the truth that each student must find for himself

You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul

A child educated only at school is an uneducated child

Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn

Give a man a truth and he will think for a day teach a man to reason and he will think for a lifetime

I cannot teach anybody anything; I can only make them think

A child can teach an adult three things: to be happy for no reason, to always be busy with something, and to know how to demand with all his might that which he desires

You are the universe but society teaches limitation

Life itself is your teacher, and you are in a state of constant learning

It’s not our job to toughen our children up to face a cruel and heartless world. It’s our job to raise children who will make the world a little less cruel and heartless