“Standing up here on the hill away from all humans - seeing these Wonders taking place before one's eyes - so silently... watching the silence of Nature. No school - no church - is as good a teacher as the eye understandingly seeing what's before it. I believe this more firmly than ever.” BelieveHumansEyeSchoolI BelieveChurchSilenceWonderTeacherSeeingStandingHills Author:Alfred Stieglitz
“Enlightened teachers are not logical. They don't function from levels that are understandable to the human mind. They're not religious. Religions form around them, usually after they've died.” MindHumansFormReligiousLevelsTeacherFunctionDiedEnlightenedLogicalHuman Mind Author:Frederick Lenz
“Human beings have illusions. The enlightened don't have illusions. They see things as they are, and in that seeing, they see ecstasy and joy. They see the play of life.” HumansPlayJoyHuman BeingsTeacherSeeingIllusionEnlightenedEcstasy Author:Frederick Lenz
“There is obstruction. Enlightenment is not very popular in this world. History tells us that enlightened teachers who made themselves largely available to human beings had problems.” WorldHumansMadeProblemHuman BeingsTeacherThis WorldEnlightenmentAvailableEnlightenedWorld HistoryObstructionVery Popular Author:Frederick Lenz
“Christmas time - an Enlightened Teacher came into the world, taught, and died. His message was simple: Forgive. While the human beings of this planet have still not absorbed this simple Truth, it remains the Truth.” WorldHumansStillsHuman BeingsSimpleChristianityTeacherTaughtPlanetsMessagesDiedRemainsForgivingEnlightenedSimple TruthsChristmas Time Author:Frederick Lenz
“We are paying teachers who are in charge of our human capital, arguably more important than our financial capital, a very tiny fraction of what Wall Streeters are paid.” HumansImportantTeacherWallPaidFinancialTinyFractions Author:Robert Reich
“We teachers can only help the work going on, as servants wait upon a master. We then become witnesses to the development of the human soul; the emergence of the New Man who will no longer be the victim of events but, thanks to his clarity of vision, will become able to direct and to mold the future of mankind.” MenHumansSoulHelpingAbleWaitingVisionTeacherMankindEventsMastersDevelopmentDirectVictimClarityThanksWitnessServantHuman SoulMoldEmergenceMontessoriClarity Of VisionFuture Of Mankind Author:Maria Montessori
“Margaret Mead was both a student of civilization and an exemplar of it. To a public of millions, she brought the central insight of cultural anthropology: that varying cultural patterns express an underlying human unity. She mastered her discipline, but she also transcended it. Intrepid, independent, plain spoken, fearless, she remains a model for the young and a teacher from whom all may learn.” HumansMayYoungMillionsTeacherStudentsDisciplineCivilizationModelsIndependentRemainsUnityPatternsInsightFearlessAnthropologyMead Author:Margaret Mead
“In every human society of which we have any record, there are those who teach and those who learn, for learning a way of life is implicit in all human culture as we know it. But the separation of the teacher's role from the role of all adults who inducted the young into the habitual behavior of the group, was a comparatively late invention. Furthermore, when we do find explicit and defined teaching, in primitive societies we find it tied in with a sense of the rareness or the precariousness of some human tradition.” KnowsWayHumansYoungLife IsCultureRolesTeachRecordsTeacherGroupsTeachingBehaviorLateAdultsTraditionSeparationInventionDefinedTiedPrimitiveHabitualHuman SocietyExplicitImplicit Author:Margaret Mead
“Teachers are the most important individuals in our society - nothing is as powerful as the human touch in education.” HumansImportantIndividualPowerfulTeacherOur Society Author:George Lucas
“One of the major challenges facing creative individuals is that of building upon the continuity of human knowledge while achieving novel insights. ... On the one hand, to intensify an inquiry and develop a sense of commitment to a creative life, the learner needs models, teachers, and collaborators. On the other hand, the individual, while building upon the past, needs to transform it, and thus broaden his or her choices.” NeedsHumansHandsPastChoicesIndividualChallengesCreativityNovelCreativeTeacherAchieveBuildingMajorsModelsCommitmentInnovationInsightInquiryContinuityLearnersCollaboratorsHuman KnowledgeCreative Life Author:Vera John-Steiner
“Adolescence is a relatively recent thing in human history -- a period of years between the constraints of childhood and the responsibilities of adulthood. This irresponsible period of adolescence is artificially extended by long years of education, much of it wasted on frivolities. Tenure extends adolescence even further for teachers and professors.” YearsHumansLongResponsibilityTeacherChildhoodPeriodsProfessorsAdulthoodAdolescenceHuman HistoryConstraintsIrresponsibleTenureFrivolity Author:Thomas Sowell
“The purpose of teachers should be to add to the sum of human knowers rather than the sum of human knowledge.” ShouldHumansPurposeTeacherAddHuman Knowledge Author:Stuart Sherman
“[About Jews] By nature we are like all other human beings, yet our people is unlike others, because our life is different, our history is different, our teacher is the Exile.” PeopleHumansDifferentLife IsHuman BeingsTeacherOur LivesJewExile Author:I. L. Peretz
“Awakening is not a state but a process: an ethical way of life and commitment that enables human flourishing. As such, it is no longer the exclusive preserve of enlightened teachers or accomplished yogis. Likewise, nirvana-the stopping of craving-is not the goal of the path but its very source. For human flourishing first stirs in that clear, bright, empty space where neurotic self-centredness realizes that it has no ground at all to stand on. One is then freed to pour forth like sunlight.” WayFirstsHumansSelfStatesProcessGoalRealizingSpacePathClearTeacherSourceCommitmentEmptyAwakeningPreservesAccomplishedEnlightenedEthicalSunlightStoppingCravingExclusiveNeuroticFlourishingEmpty SpaceYogi Author:Stephen Batchelor
“My mom always said that she didn't wear a red nose and big shoes because that's the reason people are scared of clowns. My dad is a sociology teacher, so he probably figured that out with her. Those are the things that are exaggerated, that don't give off the signals of humans. You know, if you draw a picture of a circle and ask somebody to feel empathy with the circle, they won't. But if you draw literally two, three dots inside the circle, like two eyes and a nose, you immediately feel empathy.” PeopleIfsKnowsGivingFeelsHumansSaidTwoReasonBigsEyeThreeAsksTeacherMomDadEmpathyDrawsRedMy DadShoesScaredMy MomCirclesNosesSignalsSociologyClownDotsExaggeratedBig Shoes Author:Jesse Eisenberg
“Some of the first human beings in whom the new consciousness emerged fully became the great teachers of humanity, such as Buddha, Lao Tzu, or Jesus, although their teachings were greatly misunderstood, especially when they turned into organized religion. They were the first manifestations of the flowering of human consciousness.” FirstsHumansHumanityJesusHuman BeingsConsciousnessTeacherTeachingManifestationOrganizedMisunderstoodGreat TeacherOrganized ReligionFloweringHuman ConsciousnessLaosLao Tzu Author:Eckhart Tolle
“One of the most extraordinary things about being a spiritual teacher is the rare privilege of being able to look deeply into the very souls of many human beings at the same time.” HumansLooksSoulAbleSpiritualLiteratureHuman BeingsTeacherExtraordinaryPrivilegeExtraordinary ThingsSpiritual Teachers Author:Andrew Cohen
“Nothing will have more impact on the future of the world than for each of us to find out why we were born and to do it. Human beings tend to do this when parents, teachers and other mentors invite us to it.” WorldHumansParentBornHuman BeingsTeacherImpactInvitesMentor Author:Oliver DeMille
“A man in trouble laments that he did not listen to his teachers, and thus he finds himself in a sad state, utter ruin. A candid admission of a blunder is refreshing and not often heard in human affairs. It is the saint alone who is large-minded enough to think and speak in this way. This is part of his authenticity.The person who is swift to hear and slow to respond is a stranger to an all-knowing illuminism. He believes that others, too, have some truth, and he is willing to be instructed by them. He is ready for the mind of God.” ThinkingMenWayMindBelieveHumansPersonsStatesEnoughSpeakKnowingTeacherTroubleHeardWillingReadyAffairSaintStrangerAuthenticityRuinsRefreshingBlundersAdmissionLamentCandid Author:Thomas Dubay
“For humans as well as for ships, dark stormy nights are better teachers than tranquil sunny days.” HumansWellsNightDarkTeacherShipsSunnyTranquilStormySunny DayStormy Nights Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan
“If nature be regarded as the teacher and we poor human beings as her pupils, the human race presents a very curious picture. We all sit together at a lecture and possess the necessary principles for understanding it, yet we always pay more attention to the chatter of our fellow students than to the lecturer's discourse. Or, if our neighbor copies something down, we sneak it from him, stealing what he himself may have heard imperfectly, and add it to our own errors of spelling and opinion.” IfsHumansMayTogetherUnderstandingHuman BeingsPoorPayRaceAttentionOpinionPrinciplesTeacherHeardStudentsFellowsAddErrorsNeighborStealingCuriousHuman RaceCopiesDiscourseLecturesPupilsSneakSpellingLecturerChatter Author:Georg C. Lichtenberg
“Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit. My three [great teachers] did not tell - they catalyzed a burning desire to know. Under their influence, the horizons sprung wide and fear went away and the unknown became knowable. But most important of all, the truth, that dangerous stuff, became beautiful and very precious.” KnowsMindHumansArtImportantMightBeautifulSpiritDesireThreeStuffTeacherInfluenceTeachingDangerousWideMediumsBurningHorizonHuman MindGreat TeacherSprungBurning Desire Author:John Steinbeck
“Arts in education is especially important to me. Inspired teachers in our education system is crucial in developing inspired human beings.” HumansArtImportantHuman BeingsTeacherInspiredDevelopingCrucialEducation System Author:Madi Diaz