2,279 Quotes About Teaching

The educational policy he considers the most important isn't "what river you live in" but "How You swim in the river you live in".

Pass the parcel. That's sometimes all you can do. Take it, feel it, and pass it on. Not for me, not for you, but for someone, somewhere, one day. Pass it on, boys. That's the game I want you to learn. Pass it on.

Leaders don’t hide good news from their followers. As long as they discover knowledge, they share knowledge. They leave part of them with people they meet; hence they are hardly missed when they are gone.

Leaders don’t leave people empty handed. They give them part of themselves through knowledge sharing and influence creation.

You don’t miss great leaders because their impacts and footprints are always staring at you in the face.

Every child should be taught how to read, write and think.

The teacher is of course an artist, but being an artist does not mean that he or she can make the profile, can shape the students. What an educator does in teaching is to make it possible for the students to become themselves.

If education is the key, then the teacher is the hand that holds the key! How can the key alone open a door? We must always care for teachers!

American attitudes toward teachers are frankly incoherent. We want outstanding people to enter the field but provide little incentive to do so. We expect teachers to be able to educate every child, including one for whom the obstacles to learning originate outside the school. They should be able to do this without adequate training, having figured it out on their own.