Quotes About Development

It is commonly said that a teacher fails if he has not been surpassed by his students.

The best teachers have shown me that things have to be done bit by bit. Nothing that means anything happens quickly - we only think it does.

If you give me rice, I'll eat today; if you teach me how to grow rice, I'll eat every day.

Failure is a great teacher and, if you are open to it, every mistake has a lesson to offer.

Embrace struggle... It is your greatest teacher.

Warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.

We now accept the fact that learning is a lifelong process of keeping abreast of change. And the most pressing task is to teach people how to learn.

The best teacher in life is experience.

Difficulties come into our lives to develop us. Every storm is a school. Every trial is a teacher. Every experience is an education.

Instead of sending guns, send books. Instead of sending weapons, send teachers.

Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker

I see the mind of the five-year-old as a volcano with two vents: destructiveness and creativeness.

The greatest teacher I know is the job itself.

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.

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.

The great end of education is, to discipline rather than to furnish the mind; to train it to the use of its own powers, rather than fill it with the accumulation of others.

Creativity is a type of learning process where the teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.

Successful people ask questions. They seek new teachers. They're always learning.

Genius is the basis for the deepest type of mentoring. When true learning occurs genius teaches genius and both the teacher and the student grow.

There's a lot of talk these days about giving children self-esteem. It's not something you can give; it's something they have to build.

Pain is the great teacher of mankind. Beneath its breath souls develop.

There's an assumption that schools are for students' learning. Well, why aren't they just as much for teachers' learning?

As a former high school teacher, I know that investing in education is one of the most important things we can do, not only for our children, but for the benefit of our whole community.

The ideal teacher student relationship exists when the student is better than the teacher.