T Quotes
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“The teacher appears when the student is ready to learn.”
“THE TEACHER AS A NECESSARY EVIL. Let us have as few people as possible between the productive minds and the hungry and recipient minds! The middlemen almost unconsciously adulterate the food which they supply. It is because of teachers that so little is learned, and that so badly.”
“The teacher can always tell when you did your homework on the bus.”
“The teacher can seldom afford to miss the questions: What is the unknown? What are the data? What is the condition? The student should consider the principal parts of the problem attentively, repeatedly, and from from various sides.”
Source: How to solve it: a new aspect of mathematical method
“The teacher does best, not when he explains, but when he impels his pupils to seek themselves the explanation.”
Source: Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion
“The teacher does not have to be, although he has to know: he is the mind imagining, not the executant.”
Source: The Essential Wyndham Lewis: An Introduction to His Work
“The teacher doesn't teach, not really. The teacher offers stimulation and ways in which the person can educate himself or herself. At best the teacher wakes up that person and makes a person hungry.”
“The teacher encourages
the student morphs - moth to beauteous butterfly soars”
“The teacher gives not of his wisdom, but rather of his faith and lovingness.”
“The teacher has more power than the Minister.”
“The teacher has not taught until the student has learned.”
“The teacher has nothing to do with people who use their mental powers to block the enlightenment of others. These people lack control. What can you teach someone who lacks control?”
“The teacher is a bright sun to illuminate the way of the students if he discriminates, one side will be light، the other one dark.”
“The teacher is a catalyst to convert information from a high energy state (list of facts) to a low energy state (visual concept associated with known concepts).”
Source: Straight A at Stanford and on to Harvard
“The teacher is a needle, the disciple is as thread. You must practice constantly.”
Source: "The Book of Five Rings (Go Rin no Sho)" Military Strategy by Miyamoto Musashi w/ How to use "Read to Me" - The Way of the Samurai Warrior and Bushido ... (CLS 006) -
“The teacher is a strong weapon if used against the student either it kills or severely will injure.”
“The teacher is commodified, the school is a shop, the subjects are consumer goods. To read, to think, to reflect, isn't a question of want, it's a question of need.”
“The teacher is like the candle which lights others in consuming itself.”
“The teacher is no longer merely the-one-who-teaches, but one who is him/herself taught in dialogue with the students, who in turn while being taught also teach. They become jointly responsible for a process in which all grow.”
“The teacher is not a person; they're a field of energy. They're a series of levels of attention. While they have a body and appear to be there, they're not.”
“The teacher is not only a person; everything inside the temporal circle is a teacher; everyone learns from it; thus, every day is a Teacher's Day that sprays the fragrance of appreciation.”
“The teacher is of course an artist, but being an artist does not mean that he or she can make the profile, can shape the students. What the educator does in teaching is to make it possible for the students to become themselves.”
Source: We Make the Road by Walking: Conversations on Education and Social Change
“The teacher is one who makes two ideas grow where only one grew before.”
Source: A Thousand & One Epigrams: Selected from the Writings of Elbert Hubbard
“The teacher is the one who gets the most out of the lessons, and that the true teacher is a learner.”
“The teacher is the only one worth listening to.”
“The teacher is transmitting pure awareness and consciousness.”
“The teacher left her wisdom, in the minds of lots of children, and did her best to give them all a better start.”
“The teacher loses the position of external boss or dictator but takes on that of leader of group activities”
Source: Experience and Education, 60th Anniversary Edition
“The teacher manages to get along still with the cumbersome algebraic analysis, in spite of its difficulties and imperfections, and avoids the smooth infinitesimal calculus, although the eighteenth century shyness toward it had long lost all point.”
Source: Elementary Mathematics from a Higher Standpoint: Volume I: Arithmetic, Algebra, Analysis
“The teacher must adopt the role of facilitator not content provider.”
“The teacher must be an actor, an artist,passionately in love with his work.”
“The teacher must be ready to teach.”
“The teacher must derive not only the capacity, but the desire, to observe natural phenomena. The teacher must understand and feel her position of observer: the activity must lie in the phenomenon.”
“The teacher must herself be excited if she is to sell her goods. And she can do an exciting job in stirring the student without herself knowing all the answers.”
“The teacher not only shapes the expectations and ambitions of her pupils, but she also influences their attitudes toward their future and themselves. If she is unskilled, she leaves scars on the lives of youth, cuts deeply into their self-esteem, and distorts their image of themselves as human beings. But if she loves her students and has high expectations of them, their self-confidence will grow, their capabilities will develop, and their future will be assured.”
“The teacher of history's work should be, ideally, not simply a description of past cultures, but a performance of the culture in which we live and are increasingly taking our being.”
“The teacher pretended that algebra was a perfectly natural affair, to be taken for granted, whereas I didn't even know what numbers were. Mathematics classes became sheer terror and torture to me. I was so intimidated by my incomprehension that I did not dare to ask any questions.”
“The teacher pulled out a pile of papers. They were Bennie’s tests and homework assignments. Mrs. Lewis said, “Ma’am, here is the proof that Bennie isn’t up to a fourth grade level. He has an F on several of these assignments. In fact, a zero grade is too high for some of Bennie’s work this last year.”
Source: Surviving Chaos: How I Found Peace at A Beach Bar
“The teacher should be like the conductor in the orchestra, not the trainer in the circus.”
Source: The Education Decree
“The teacher should make a concerted effort never to lose his temper in the presence of the class. If a man, he may take refuge in profane soliloquies. If a woman, she may follow the example of one sweet-faced tranquil girl who went out in the yard and gnawed a post.”
“The teacher should not assume that he/she is always correct, or try to make the worst cases appear reasonable before his pupils. On the other hand, the teacher should accept the corrections as much as they love to do it to others.”
Source: Treatise Upon The Misconceptions of Narcissism
“The teacher should use illustrations for the better teaching of the lesson, and never to fill up time, to amuse the class, or to display his own genius.”
“The teacher showed us how to see proportions, relationships, light and shadow, negative space, and space between space - something I never noticed before! In one week, I went from not knowing how to draw to sketching a detailed portrait. It literally changed the way I see things.”
“The teacher taught me the word in school. I wrote it in my book. B-E-A-U-T-I-F-U-L. Beautiful! I think it means something that when you have it, your heart is happy.”
Source: Something Beautiful
“The teacher teaches.”
“The teacher that I was for decades, and that I still am in a certain way, wondered what was meant by the word education. I was truly dumbfounded at the very thought of dealing with such an essential and extensive subject.”
“The teacher took two long strides and stood beside Parker’s desk. Before the boy could speak, Mr. Earl threw the desktop open. For a second, he stared into it. A white glow reflected off his face.
“What is this?” he said, as he reached toward the brightness.
“Careful, Mr. Earl,” Parker started to say, but it was too late.
The teacher screeched before lurching against the desk. He went down quickly, his feet vanishing into the desk last.”
“The teacher usually learns more than the pupils. Isn't that true? "It would be hard to learn much less than my pupils," came a low growl from somewhere on the table, "without undergoing a pre-frontal lobotomy."”
“The teacher who allows his scholars the freedom of the city of books is at liberty to be their guide, philosopher and friend; and is no longer the mere instrument of forcible intellectual feeding.”
Source: Towards a Psychology of Education
“The teacher who assesses his students with providing feedback is like the optician to give the people the suitable glasses to see better and clear.”