The Essence of Teaching

Our first teacher is our own heart.

American Indian proverb

You cannot teach a person anything; you can only help him find it within himself.

Galileo Gallilei

Success and failure are the two greatest practical teachers ‒ for those who want to learn and grow.

Vadim Kotelnikov

One mark of a great educator is the ability to lead students out to new places where even the educator has never been.

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Thomas Groome

When the student is ready, the master appears.

Buddhist proverb

Experience is as important for knowledge as education.

Indian proverb

The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.

Anatole France

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

Sidney Sugarman

Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

Malcom S. Forbes

The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.

Carl Rogers

Professors known as outstanding lecturers do two things; they use a simple plan and many examples.

W. McKeachie

Teaching kids to count is fine, but teaching them what counts is best.

Bob Talbert

The best way to teach people is by telling a story.

Ken Blanchard

 Teaching and Coaching by Example

Leadership by example is a most effective way of leadership. The same is true for teaching and coaching.  >>>

Vadim Kotelnikov

Teachers teach more by what they are than by what they say.

Unknown

By learning you will teach, by teaching you will learn.

Latin Proverb

One father is worth 100 schoolmasters.

George Herbert

 Teaching by Inspiring 

Don't edify − inspire!.  >>>

Vadim Kotelnikov

The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.

William Arthur Ward

The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton