“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 bridges of their own.” Nikos Kazantzakis
“In preparing for battle, I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.” –Dwight D. Eisenhower
The man (or woman) who can make hard things easy is the educator.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
The test of a good teacher is not how many questions he can ask his pupils that they will answer readily, but how many questions he inspires them to ask him which he finds it hard to answer.
-Alice Wellington Rollins
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
-William A. Ward
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
-William Butler Yeats
It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.
Albert Einstein
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit.
– Aristotle
As a general rule, teachers teach more by what they are than by what they say.
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