Famous Quotes

"A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron."

Horace Mann on Teacher

More quotes about Teacher

• "I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers."

  Khalil Gibran on Teacher

• "It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge."

  Albert Einstein on Teacher

• "If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself."

  Confucius on Teacher

• "You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul."

  Swami Vivekananda on Teacher

• "I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit."

  John Steinbeck on Teacher

More quotes by Horace Mann

• "Education alone can conduct us to that enjoyment which is, at once, best in quality and infinite in quantity."

• "Education alone can conduct us to that enjoyment which is, at once, best in quality and infinite in quantity."

• "Generosity during life is a very different thing from generosity in the hour of death one proceeds from genuine liberality and benevolence, the other from pride or fear."

• "A human being is not attaining his full heights until he is educated."

• "Education then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men, the balance-wheel of the social machinery."