Famous Quotes

"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.'"

Maria Montessori on Teacher

More quotes about Teacher

• "I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers."

  Khalil Gibran on Teacher

• "It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge."

  Albert Einstein on Teacher

• "If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself."

  Confucius on Teacher

• "You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul."

  Swami Vivekananda on Teacher

• "I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit."

  John Steinbeck on Teacher

More quotes by Maria Montessori

• "We especially need imagination in science. It is not all mathematics, nor all logic, but it is somewhat beauty and poetry."

• "Establishing lasting peace is the work of education all politics can do is keep us out of war."

• "If education is always to be conceived along the same antiquated lines of a mere transmission of knowledge, there is little to be hoped from it in the bettering of man's future. For what is the use of transmitting knowledge if the individual's total development lags behind?"

• "We discovered that education is not something which the teacher does, but that it is a natural process which develops spontaneously in the human being."

• "We cannot create observers by saying 'observe,' but by giving them the power and the means for this observation and these means are procured through education of the senses."