Quotes About Empowerment

Your role as a leader is even more important than you might imagine. You have the power to help people become winners.

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.

We need standards with flexibility, not standardization with force if we are to get the best from our teachers.

You are not given the light by anyone—not even by a spiritual teacher. You are that light.

No matter whether you are a physician, a teacher, or a clergyman, if you can give increase of life to others and make them sensible of that fact, they will be attracted to you, and you will get rich.

We teachers make the road, others will make the journey.

Before any great things are accomplished, a memorable change must be made in the system of education...to raise the lower ranks of society nearer to the higher.

The best of all teachers is the one who helps people so that eventually they don't need him.

Every person of learning is finally his own teacher.

No one will ever get anywhere in this world unless he becomes a teacher, one who can show others how to do things.

The task of a teacher is not to work for the pupil nor to oblige him to work, but to show him how to work.

The best teachers coach their students and the best coaches are great teachers.

Kids don't lack capacity, only teachers.

They believe in teachers unions. We believe in teachers.

One of the marks of a great teacher lies not only in an ability to impart knowledge but also in knowing when to encourage a student to go off on his own.

True teaching liberates the student from his teacher.

It's not the job of the teacher to save a child's soul; it is the teacher's job to provide an opportunity for the child to save his own soul.

Excellent instruction is less about what a teacher does and more about what students can do and know as a result of the lesson.

I think for real change to happen, it's going to have to come from the kids, the community, the teachers, the parents.

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

We should have high expectations of our children, but politicians should not tell teachers how to meet them.

No teacher, preacher, parent, friend, or wise man can decide what's right for you.

In a Giraffe institution, the head nurse job would be to serve the nurses, not to control them. Teachers are there to serve the students, not control them.

There are places on Earth, in every country, where, for various reasons, good schools cannot be built and good teachers cannot or do not want to go.