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“Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.”

“Teaching should be such that what is offered is perceived as a valuable gift and not as a hard duty.”

“Good teaching is more a giving of right questions than a giving of right answers.”

“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 do know and what you don't. It's knowing where to go to find out what you need to know, and it's knowing how to use the information once you get it.”

“Let us think of education as the means of developing our greatest abilities, because in each of us there is a private hope and dream which, fulfilled, can be translated into benefit for everyone and greater strength of the nation.”

“Every truth has four corners: as a teacher I give you one corner, and it is for you to find the other three.”

“The children are now working as if I did not exist.”

“Education would be much more effective if its purpose was to ensure that by the time they leave school every boy and girl should know how much they do not know and be imbued with a lifelong desire to know it.”

“Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people can be engaged in.”

“A good teacher is like a candle - it consumes itself to light the way for others.”

“The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself.”

“The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.”

“The true aim of every one who aspires to be a teacher should be, not to impart his own opinions,but to kindle minds.”

“The task of the excellent teacher is to stimulate 'apparently ordinary' people to unusual effort. The tough problem is not in identifying winners: it is in making winners out of ordinary people.”

“Seldom was any knowledge given to keep, but to impart; the grace of this rich jewel is lost in concealment.”

“He that teaches us anything which we knew not before is undoubtedly to be reverenced as a master.”

“No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete.”

“Warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.”

“Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.”

“Teaching is the only major occupation of man for which we have not yet developed tools that make an average person capable of competence and performance. In teaching we rely on the 'naturals,' the ones who somehow know how to teach.”

“It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.”

“Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant.”

“Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.”