The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hours discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up between the pages of your notebooks and keep on the mantelpiece forever.
One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers but with gratitude to those who touched our human feeling. Curriculum is necessary raw material but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.
If I am walking with two other men each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself.
A teacher who can arouse a feeling for one single good action for one single good poem accomplishes more than he who fills our memory with rows of natural objects classified with name and form.
The good man is the teacher of the bad And the bad is the material from which the good may learn. He who does not value the teacher Or greatly care for the material Is greatly deluded although he may be learned. Such is the essential mystery.
The teachers task is not to implant facts but to place the subject to be learned in front of the learner and through sympathyemotion imagination and patience to awaken in the learner the restless drive for answers and insights which enlarge the personal life and give it meaning.
If you are sincere in seeking this knowledge you must look for a teacher and humbly ask your teacher to show you the opening of the Mysterious Gate. From then on if your actions follow the Tao you will progress. If your actions stray from the Tao your progress will be halted.’08-02-2010
A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary
I have learned silence from the talkative toleration from the intolerant and kindness from the unkind; yet strange I am ungrateful to these teachers.
If you would thoroughly know anything teach it to others.
Teaching is not a lost art but the regard for it is a lost tradition.
The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself.
The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hours discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up between the pages of your notebooks and keep on the mantelpiece forever.
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
I care not what subject is taught if only it be taught well.
One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers but with gratitude to those who touched our human feeling. Curriculum is necessary raw material but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.
Old soldiers never die they just fade away
Men must be taught as if you taught them not And things unknown proposd as things forgot.
The teacher is like the candle which lights others in consuming itself.
He who can does. He who cannot teaches.
I am indebted to my father for living but to my teacher for living well.
Those that know do. Those that understand teach.
You teach best what you most need to learn.
For all a rhetoricians rules teach nothing but to name his tools.
If I am walking with two other men each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself.
The man who can make hard things easy is the educator.
It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.
Im not a teacher but an awakener.
You can get help from teachers but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself sitting alone in a room.
A teacher who can arouse a feeling for one single good action for one single good poem accomplishes more than he who fills our memory with rows of natural objects classified with name and form.
How can I be useful of what service can I be? There is something inside me what can it be?
I had out of my sixty teachers a scant half dozen who couldnt have been supplanted by phonographs.
A teacher must believe in the value and interest of his subject as a doctor believes in health.
We do not want churches because they will teach us to quarrel about God….
Take away paradox from the thinker and you have the professor.
The good man is the teacher of the bad And the bad is the material from which the good may learn. He who does not value the teacher Or greatly care for the material Is greatly deluded although he may be learned. Such is the essential mystery.
Teaching a child not to step on a caterpillar is as valuable to the child as it is to the caterpillar.
We teachers can only help the work going on as servants wait upon a master.
To state a theorem and then to show examples of it is literally to teach backwards.
The teachers task is not to implant facts but to place the subject to be learned in front of the learner and through sympathyemotion imagination and patience to awaken in the learner the restless drive for answers and insights which enlarge the personal life and give it meaning.
Even while they teach men learn.
If you are sincere in seeking this knowledge you must look for a teacher and humbly ask your teacher to show you the opening of the Mysterious Gate. From then on if your actions follow the Tao you will progress. If your actions stray from the Tao your progress will be halted.’08-02-2010
How can you know what you want till you get what you want and you see if you like it?
Delightful task! to rear the tender thought To teach the young idea how to shoot.
I can teach anybody how to get what they want out of life. The problem is that I cant find anybody who can tell me what they want.
Old gardeners never die they just go to seed.
Teaching is the greatest act of optimism.
The work will teach you how to do it.