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“I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.”

“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.”

“A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.”

“In teaching you cannot see the fruit of a day's work. It is invisible and remains so, maybe for twenty years.”

“The dream begins with a teacher who believes in you, who tugs and pushes and leads you to the next plateau, sometimes poking you with a sharp stick called 'truth'.”

“The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.”

“What the teacher is, is more important than what he teaches.”

“True teachers are those who use themselves as bridges over which they invite their students to cross; then, having facilitated their crossing, joyfully collapse, encouraging them to create their own.”

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

“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.”

“I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.”

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

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

“Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.”