Quotes About Development

Success is a poor teacher. We learn the most about ourselves when we fail, so don't be afraid of failing. Failing is part of the process of success. You cannot have success without failure.

The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize.

A teacher enlarges people in all sorts of ways besides just his subject matter.

A nation will prosper to the degree that it honors it's teachers.

Success is a lousy teacher.

Constant muscular activity was natural for the child, and, therefore, the immense effort of the drillmaster teachers to make children sit still was harmful and useless.

The expert at anything was once a beginner.

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.

Teachers who do not take their own education seriously, who do not study, who make little effort to keep abreast of events have no moral authority to coordinate the activities of the classroom.

If you read the biography of any great man, you will always notice two things: His mother's contribution in his progress and his teacher's contribution in his growth and development.

Mentoring is a mutuality that requires more than meeting the right teacher: the teacher must meet the right student.

Failure is a teacher; a harsh one, but the best.

Growing up, I took so many cues from books. They taught me most of what I knew about what people did, about how to behave. They were my teachers and my advisers.

Excellence is a better teacher than mediocrity.

My teachers treated me as a diamond in the rough, someone who needed smoothing.

As far as men go, it is not what they are that interests me, but what they can become.

Any genuine teaching will result, if successful, in someone's knowing how to bring about a better condition of things than existed earlier.

As we learn we always change, and so our perception. This changed perception then becomes a new Teacher inside each of us.

Kids don't lack capacity, only teachers.

Home is the first school for us all, a school with no fixed curriculum, no quality control, no examinations, no teacher training

...it is the greatest achievement of a teacher to enable his students to surpass him.

The number one goal of teachers should be to help students learn how to learn.

I have a principle I often invoke in class: comfortable people don't grow. Good teachers need to engage in the paradox of making students feel comfortable and uncomfortable in equal measure.

What we want for our students we should want for our teachers: learning, challenge, support, and respect.