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

The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.

Delightful task! to rear the tender thought, To teach the young idea how to shoot.

The best learning I had came from teaching.

Men learn while they teach.

Most of us end up with no more than five or six people who remember us. Teachers have thousands of people who remember them for the rest of their lives.

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

The useful type of successful teacher is one whose main interest is the children, not the subject.

Who teaches, often learns himself.

When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionable.

We teach more by what we are than by what we teach.

A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.

Don't let yesterday take up too much of today.

You'll miss the best things if you keep your eyes shut.

Just as a person is commanded to honor and revere his father, so he is under an obligation to honor and revere his teacher, even to a greater extent than his father; for his father gave him life in this world, while his teacher instructs him in wisdom, secures for him life in the world to come.

I cut the tree and my calloused hand carves it, but someone more able than I must finish it with beauty and brilliance.

We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading.

Never try to teach a pig to sing... it wastes your time and annoys the pig.

A man should first direct himself in the way he should go. Only then should he instruct others.

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