A gifted teacher is as rare as a gifted doctor, and makes far less money.
A professor is one who talks in someone else's sleep.
A schoolmaster should have an atmosphere of awe, and walk wonderingly, as if he was amazed at being himself.
A schoolteacher or professor cannot educate individuals, he educates only species.
A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.
A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on a cold iron.
A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher who is not teaching.
A wisely chosen illustration is almost essential to fasten the truth upon the ordinary mind, and no teacher can afford to neglect this part of his preparation.
Arrogance, pedantry, and dogmatism… the occupational diseases of those who spend their lives directing the intellects of the young.
Children should be led into the right paths, not by severity, but by persuasion.
Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each.
Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books.
Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.
First he wrought, and afterward he taught.
Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
Good teaching must be slow enough so that it is not confusing, and fast enough so that it is not boring.
He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.
He who dares to teach must never cease to learn.
He who does not research has nothing to teach.