Quotes about teacher
teacher stars white
For eager teachers seized my youth, pruned my faith and trimmed my fire. Showed me the high, white star of truth, there bade me gaze and there aspire. Matthew Arnold
teacher children parent
But it had no doubt sprung from true emotion, for all that parents ever wanted, really, was for you to love their child the way they did. Meg Wolitzer
teacher teaching long
New teachers were just a part of life, for a few days after one arrived, squawks of interest were emitted from various corners, but then they died away as the teacher was absorbed like everyone else...before you knew it, the fresh ones seemed to have been teaching there forever too, or else they didn't last very long, and were gone before you'd gotten to know them.
teacher stars littles
Being a teacher at a restaurant in the town where you lived was a little like being a TV star...
teacher children kids
I want to work with the teachers' union. But as I said out there, we have to put the kids first and we are letting down a generation of California children. It's not acceptable. Meg Whitman
teacher dad regret
I think if I hadn't been a writer, I'd have been a teacher like my dad. He was a college professor, and one of my greatest regrets is that he passed away before I was able to prove to him that I wasn't going to be stuck working at Rax Roast Beef for the rest of my life! Meg Cabot
teacher target
I learned to shoot more accurately because my teachers held the targets. Maxine Hong Kingston
teacher
At our best, we are all teachers Maya Angelou
teacher party mean
The primary task of a useful teacher is to teach his students to recognize 'inconvenient' facts - I mean facts that are inconvenient for their party opinions. Max Weber
teacher personality generations
As a teacher, as a propagandist, Mr. Shaw is no good at all, even in his own generation. But as a personality, he is immortal. Max Beerbohm
teacher want remember
I remember I used to come up to my teacher crying because I couldn't read. She would say: 'You can do this. You just don't want to do this. Max Brooks
teacher school college
A coach, especially at a college level - much more at a college or high school level, than at a pro level - you're more of a teacher than an actual coach. Matthew McConaughey
teacher school thinking
Over my life as a teacher, women have been too quiet. I'm quiet myself. I don't think I said three words the whole of graduate school. Marilynne Robinson
teacher environment divided
The work of education is divided between the teacher and the environment. Maria Montessori
teacher firsts tasks
The first thing required of a teacher is that he be rightly disposed for his task.
teacher children book
The observation of the way in which the children pass from the first disordered movements to those which are spontaneous and ordered -- this is the book of the teacher; this is the book which must inspire her actions . . .
teacher children special
The teacher's task is not to talk, but to prepare and arrange a series of motives for cultural activity in a special environment made for the child.
teacher children technique
In the psychological realm of relationship between teacher and child, the teacher's part and its techniques are analogous to those of the valet; they are to serve, and to serve well: to serve the spirit.
teacher children errors
The environment itself will teach the child, if every error he makes is manifest to him, without the intervention of a parent of teacher, who should remain a quiet observer of all that happens.
teacher children school
The teacher, when she begins work in our schools, must have a kind of faith that the child will reveal himself through work.
teacher thinking would-be
A teacher, therefore, who would think that he could prepare himself for his mission through study alone would be mistaken. The first thing required of a teacher is that he be rightly disposed for his task.
teacher giving listening
Scientific observation then has established that education is not what the teacher gives; education is a natural process spontaneously carried out by the human individual, and is acquired not by listening to words but by experiences upon the environment.
teacher appreciation lying
To stimulate life, leaving it then free to develop, to unfold, herein lies the first task of the teacher.
teacher children three
There are many things which no teacher can convey to a child of three, but a child of five can do it with ease.
teacher children giving
The instructions of the teacher consist then merely in a hint, a touch-enough to give a start to the child. The rest develops of itself.
teacher children teaching
The principal agent is the object itself and not the instruction given by the teacher. It is the child who uses the objects; it is the child who is active, and not the teacher.
teacher children learning
There is in every child a painstaking teacher so skillful that he obtains identical results in all children in all parts of the world. The only language men ever speak perfectly is the one they learn in babyhood, when no one teaches them anything.
teacher children school
Supposing I said there was a planet without schools or teachers, where study was unknown, and yet the inhabitants -- doing nothing but live and walk about -- came to know all things, to carry in their minds the whole of learning; would you not think I was romancing? Well, just this, which seems so fanciful as to be nothing but the invention of a fertile imagination, is a reality. It is the child's way of learning.
teacher lying desire
The teacher must derive not only the capacity, but the desire, to observe natural phenomena. The teacher must understand and feel her position of observer: the activity must lie in the phenomenon.
teacher children doe
Praise, help, or even a look, may be enough to interrupt him, or destroy the activity. It seems a strange thing to say, but this can happen even if the child merely becomes aware of being watched. After all, we too sometimes feel unable to go on working if someone comes to see what we are doing. The great principle which brings success to the teacher is this: as soon as concentration has begun, act as if the child does not exist. Naturally, one can see what he is doing with a quick glance, but without his being aware of it.
teacher men done
A man is not what he is because of the teachers he has had, but because of what he has done
teacher children may
It is necessary for the teacher to guide the child without letting him feel her presence too much, so that she may always be ready to supply the desired help, but may never be the obstacle between the child and his experience.
teacher men waiting
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.