Quotes About Guidance

More important than finding the teacher is finding and following the truth of the teaching.

What do I consider a teacher should be? One who breathes life into knowledge so that it takes new form in progress and civilization.

Find a good teacher, as I found for my sons. I feel the worst thing you can do is to try and teach your own children yourself, because there is a natural rebellion that occurs.

A teacher can only lead you to the threshold of your own mind.

A good teacher does not get lost in the details, but points to what is essential so that the child or student can find meaning and joy in life.

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

A mathematics teacher is a midwife to ideas.

The example of parents is the greatest teacher. Parents must stand out as models of happiness to their children.

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

To teach is part of the very fabric of learning.

Someone watches over us when we write. Mother. Teacher. Shakespeare. God.

He that teaches us anything which we knew not before is undoubtedly to be reverenced as a master.

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

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.

Children should be led into the right paths, not by severity, but by persuasion.

Choice is a divine teacher, for when we choose we learn that nothing is ever put in our path without a reason.

I don't care who the student is, teachers should never be condescending. That should be the first rule in the teacher handbook.

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.

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

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

Students rarely disappoint teachers who assure them in advance that they are doomed to failure.

A good teacher explains, while a great teacher inspires

Arrogance, pedantry, and dogmatism...the occupational diseases of those who spend their lives directing the intellects of the young.