To know how to suggest is the great art of teaching. To attain it we must be able to guess what will interest; we must learn to read the childish soul as we might a piece of music. Then, by simply changing the key, we keep up the attraction and vary the song.
I've come to the frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element in the classroom. It's my personal approach that creates the climate. It's my daily mood that makes the weather. As a teacher, I possess tremendous power to make a student's life miserable or joyous. I can be a tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration. I can humiliate or humor, hurt or heal. In all situations it is my response that decides whether a crisis will be escalated or de-escalated and a student humanized or de-humanized.
Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know.
Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.
A teacher can only lead you to the threshold of your own mind.
It is what we know already that often prevents us from learning.
I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Teaching should be such that what is offered is perceived as a valuable gift and not as a hard duty.
Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.
An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't.
You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
Who dares to teach must never cease to learn.
We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself.
Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.
No one can take it away from you.
I can be a tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration. I can humiliate or heal. In all situations, it is my response that decides whether a crisis will be escalated or de-escalated and a child humanized or dehumanized.
Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.
The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.
Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.
What the teacher is, is more important than what he teaches.
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
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.
Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre.
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