Quotes About Empowerment

You can't teach people everything they need to know. The best you can do is position them where they can find what they need to know when they need to know it.

What is desired is that the teacher ceased being a lecturer, satisfied with transmitting ready-made solutions. His role should rather be that of a mentor stimulating initiative and research.

Imparting education not only enlightens the receiver, but also broadens the giver - the teachers, the parents, the friends.

How can the child learn to be a free and responsible citizen when the teacher is bound?

Education must begin with the solution of the teacher-student contradiction, by reconciling the poles of the contradiction so that both are simultaneously teachers and students.

A teacher in search of his/her own freedom may be the only kind of teacher who can arouse young persons to go in search of their own

One child, one teacher, one book and one pen can change the world.

True teachers are those who use themselves as bridges over which they invite their students to cross; then, having facilitated their crossing, joyfully collapse, encouraging them to create their own.

Bipolar disorder can be a great teacher. It's a challenge, but it can set you up to be able to do almost anything else in your life.

I don't want you to praise me...Some praise me because I am a colored girl, and I don't want that kind of praise. I had rather you would point out my defects, for that will teach me something.

Kids don't fail. Teachers fail, school systems fail. The people who teach children that they are failures, they are the problem.

A true teacher doesn't teach you to think like him, but to think without him.

Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.

Never do anything for a student that he he is capable of doing for himself. If you do you, you'll make him an educational cripple...a pedagogical paraplegic.

We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled, but as candles to be lit.

A good teacher creates an environment which allows the student to succeed.

Education must provide the opportunities for self-fulfillment; it can at best provide a rich and challenging environment for the individual to explore, in his own way.

Social entrepreneurs are not content just to give a fish or teach how to fish. They will not rest until they have revolutionized the fishing industry.

Let us pick up our books and our pens. They are our most powerful weapons. One child, one teacher, one book and one pen can change the world.

Can teachers successfully educate children to think for themselves if teachers are not treated as professionals who think for themselves?

Teachers open the door ... you enter by yourself.

The object of teaching a child is to enable the child to get along without the teacher. We need to educate our children for their future, not our past.

Good teachers teach. Great teachers transform.

There is no need of a teacher for those who know how to think.