| "The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires." »William Arthur Ward |
| "A student is not a professional athlete. ... He is not a little politician or junior senator looking for angles ... an amateur promoter, a glad-hander, embryo Rotarian, caf-society leader, quiz kid or man about town. A student is a person who is learning to fulfill his powers and to find ways of using them in the service of mankind." »Harold Taylor |
| "Benevolence alone will not make a teacher, nor will learning alone do it. The gift of teaching is a peculiar talent, and implies a need and a craving in the teacher himself." »John Jay Chapman |
| "Whoever ceases to be a student has never been a student." »George Iles |
| "The teacher must derive not only the capacity, but the desire, to observe natural phenomena. The teacher must understand and feel her position of observer the activity must lie in the phenomenon." »Maria Montessori |
| "Believe nothing merely because you have been told it. Do not believe what your teacher tells you merely out of respect for the teacher. But whatsoever, after due examination and analysis, you find to be kind, conducive to the good, the benefit, the welfare of all beings -- that doctrine believe and cling to, and take it as your guide." »Buddha |
| "The role of the teacher remains the highest calling of a free people. To the teacher, America entrusts her most precious resource, her children and asks that they be prepared ... to face the rigors of individual participation in a democratic society." »Shirley Mount Hufstedler |
| "A good friend is my nearest relation." »Thomas Fuller |
| "The difference between what the most and the least learned people know is inexpressibly trivial in relation to that which is unknown." »Albert Einstein |
| "Marriage is that relation between man and woman in which the independence is equal, the dependence mutual, and the obligation reciprocal." »Louis K. Anspacher |
| "It is common error to infer that things which are consecutive in order of time have necessarily the relation of cause and effect." »Jacob Bigelow |
| "Without words to objectify and categorize our sensations and place them in relation to one another, we cannot evolve a tradition of what is real in the world." »Ruth Hubbard |
| "Passive acceptance of the teacher's wisdom is easy to most boys and girls. It involves no effort of independent thought, and seems rational because the teacher knows more than his pupils it is moreover the way to win the favour of the teacher unless he is a very exceptional man. Yet the habit of passive acceptance is a disastrous one in later life. It causes man to seek and to accept a leader, and to accept as a leader whoever is established in that position." »Bertrand Russell |
| "I am a student. Please do not fold, spindle, or mutilate me." »Slogan of the Free Speech Movement, 1964. |
| "JUDGE, n A law student who marks his own papers." »H.L. Mencken |
| "The actual tragedies of life bear no relation to one's preconceived ideas. In the event, one is always bewildered by their simplicity, their grandeur of design, and by that element of the bizzare which seems inherent in them." »Jean Cocteau |
| "Our bombs are smarter than the average high school student. At least they can find Kuwait." »A. Whitney Brown |
| "You see these bums, you know, blowing up campuses ... storming around about this issue. (On student protesters against Vietnam War)" »Richard Milhous Nixon |
| "It was an initiation into the love of learning, of learning how to learn, that was revealed to me by my BLS masters as a matter of interdisciplinary cognition-that is, learning to know something by its relation to something else." »Leonard Bernstein |
| "Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become. Except in cases of necessity, which are rare, leave your friend to learn unpleasant things from his enemies they are ready enough to tell them." »Oliver Wendell Holmes |
| "The quality of a university is measured more by the kind of student it turns out than the kind it takes in." »Robert J. Kibbee |
| "The aim of the college, for the individual student, is to eliminate the need in his life for the college the task is to help him become a self-educating man." »C. Wright Mills |
| "I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework." »Edith Ann |
| "The city is the teacher of the man." »Simondes of Ceos |
| "You can teach a student a lesson for a day but if you can teach him to learn by creating curiosity, he will continue the learning process as long as he lives." »Clay P. Bedford |
| "The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne." »Robertson Davies |
| ""Experience is the best teacher- Personal but also vicarious"" »Yassine Aumerally |
| "A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary." »Thomas Carruthers |
| "Whoever cares to learn will always find a teacher." »German proverb |
| "Listen to life, it is the wisest teacher of all." »Unknown |
| BTW, Why won't you become an editor? |
