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  • A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.

    The Education of Henry Adams ch. 20 (1907)
  • The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-trust. He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him. He will have no disciples.

    "Orphic Sayings: LXXX. Teacher". "The Dial", www.alcott.net. January 1841.
  • Psychology is a science, and teaching is an art; and sciences never generate arts directly out of themselves.

    William James (2008). “Talks to Teachers on Psychology: And to Students on Some of Life's Ideals”, p.14, Nuvision Pubns
  • You teach best what you most need to learn.

    Richard Bach (2012). “Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah”, p.48, Delta
  • Psychology saves us from mistakes. It makes us more clear as to what we are about. We gain confidence in respect to any method which we are using as soon as we believe that it has theory as well as practice at its back.

    Art   Mistake   Teaching  
    William James (2013). “Talks to Teachers on Psychology and to Students on Some of Life's Ideals”, p.4, Courier Corporation
  • Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.

    "The BBC Talks of E.M. Forster, 1929-1960: A Selected Edition". Book by Edward Morgan Forster, ‎Mary Lago, ‎Linda K. Hughes, June 3, 2008.
  • Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process.

    A. Bartlett Giamatti (1981). “The University and the Public Interest”, Atheneum Books
  • It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.

    Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.52, St. Martin's Press
  • Teaching art is a shared experience. Our ability to share our own personal vision and interact with others through art can become realized.

    Art   Teaching   Vision  
  • Good teaching is more a giving of right questions than a giving of right answers.

    Josef Albers (2006). “Interaction of Color”, p.70, Yale University Press
  • To teach a man how he may learn to grow independently, and for himself, is perhaps the greatest service that one man can do another.

    Educational   Men   May  
  • Ingenuity in meeting and pursuing the pupil, that tact for the concrete situation, though they are the alpha and omega of the teacher's art, are things to which psychology cannot help us in the least.

    Teacher   Art   Teaching  
    William James (1983). “Talks to Teachers on Psychology and to Students on Some of Life's Ideals”, p.16, Harvard University Press
  • The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself.

  • Psychology ought certainly to give the teacher radical help.

    Teacher   Art   Teaching  
    William James (2008). “Talks to Teachers on Psychology: And to Students on Some of Life's Ideals”, p.12, Nuvision Pubns
  • A teacher who can arouse a feeling for one single good action, for one single good poem, accomplishes more than he who fills our memory with rows and rows of natural objects, classified with name and form.

    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2016). “Elective Affinities”, p.175, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.

    Teacher   Art   Teaching  
    John Steinbeck (2003). “America and Americans and Selected Nonfiction”, p.123, Penguin
  • The science of logic never made a man reason rightly, and the science of ethics never made a man behave rightly. The most such sciences can do is to help us to catch ourselves up and check ourselves, if we start to reason or to behave wrongly; and to criticise ourselves more articulately after we have made mistakes.

    Art   Mistake   Teaching  
    William James (1983). “Talks to Teachers on Psychology and to Students on Some of Life's Ideals”, p.15, Harvard University Press
  • To know how to suggest is the great art of teaching. To attain it we must be able to guess what will interest; we must learn to read the childish soul as we might a piece of music. Then, by simply changing the key, we keep up the attraction and vary the song.

    Song   Teacher   Art  
  • The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.

  • A master can tell you what he expects of you. A teacher, though, awakens your own expectations.

    Patricia Neal, Richard DeNeut (1988). “As I am: an autobiography”, Simon & Schuster
  • To know how to suggest is the art of teaching.

  • The amount of psychology which is necessary to all teachers need not be very great.

    Teacher   Art   Teaching  
    William James (2008). “Talks to Teachers on Psychology: And to Students on Some of Life's Ideals”, p.17, Nuvision Pubns
  • Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre.

  • In teaching, you must simply work your pupil into such a state of interest in what you are going to teach him that every other object of attention is banished from his mind; then reveal it to him so impressively that he will remember the occasion to his dying day; and finally fill him with devouring curiosity to know what the next steps in connection with the subject are.

    William James (1912). “Talks to Teachers on Psychology: And to Students on Some of Life's Ideals”
  • It is only the fundamental conceptions of psychology which are of real value to a teacher.

    Teacher   Art   Real  
    William James (2008). “Talks to Teachers on Psychology: And to Students on Some of Life's Ideals”, p.14, Nuvision Pubns
  • Who dares to teach must never cease to learn.

    John Cotton Dana's remarks on a quotation suitable for inscription on a new building at Newark State College, Union, New Jersey (1912) as quoted in "The New York Times Book Review" (p. 55.), March 5, 1967.
  • The children are now working as if I did not exist.

    "The Absorbent Mind" by Maria Montessori, Ch. 27, (p. 283), 1949.
  • The greatest sign of success for a teacher...is to be able to say, "The children are now working as if I did not exist."

    "The Absorbent Mind" by Maria Montessori, Ch. 27, (p. 283), 1949.
  • 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 (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Anatole France (Illustrated)”, p.120, Delphi Classics
  • The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.

    William Arthur Ward (1968). “Thoughts of a Christian Optimist: The Words of William Arthur Ward”
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