Quotes About Empowerment

Teach the children so it will not be necessary to teach the adults.

Teach a child how to think, not what to think.

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

The ideal teacher guides his students but does not pull them along; he urges them to go forward and does not suppress them; he opens the way but does not take them to the place.

Teachers who are not actively involved in the learning process themselves, force their students to drink from stagnant water

Mindful choosing of friends and lovers, not to mention teachers, is critical to remaining conscious, remaining intuitive, remaining in charge of the fiery light that sees and knows.

The secret in education lies in respecting the student.

You don't have to burn books, you don't have to rebel against teachers to rebel; to rebel is to truly own your own self.

No one can take it away from you.

Teaching is more than imparting knowledge, it is inspiring change.

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

If you are to be leaders, teachers, and guides among your people, you must have strength. No people can be fed, no people can be built up on flowers.

Long live teachers of children, because they can show children how they can save the world.

A good teacher protects his pupils from his own influence.

I cannot emphasize enough the importance of a good teacher.

No person is so grand or wise or perfect as to be the master of another person. Teacher, perhaps. Setter of good example, perhaps. Genius, perhaps. But master, no.

Teachers must be celebrated for moving civilization from ignorance to enlightenment, from apathy to responsibility.

A true teacher would never tell you what to do. But he would give you the knowledge with which you could decide what would be best for you to do.

[The Barefoot College is] the only college where the teacher is the learner and the learner is the teacher.

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.

Only secretly rebellious teachers have ever done right by our least advantaged kids.

The kind of teacher who is afraid that they are going to be replaced by a computer should be.

Without the local library in my neighborhood, I don't think I would have grown up to be a writer or a teacher.

Be your own teacher. Let life write your textbook.