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Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.

You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.

We come nearest to the great when we are great in humility.

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

A poor teacher complains, an average teacher explains, a good teacher teaches, a great teacher inspires.

Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.

A little neglect may breed great mischief.

One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.

Warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.

Some of the first human beings in whom the new consciousness emerged fully became the great teachers of humanity, such as Buddha, Lao Tzu, or Jesus, although their teachings were greatly misunderstood, especially when they turned into organized religion. They were the first manifestations of the flowering of human consciousness.

The job of an educator is to teach students to see vitality in themselves

We need to invest in very different ways. Get the students the support they need, get them the best principals, get them the great teachers, and I promise you those students would do extraordinarily well. I have seen it all my life.

I think great teachers, which coaches are, are the ones that you hear.

Everything good that I know was taught to me by great teachers and I feel like giving back and sharing the technique is the thing to do.

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.

Great teachers are usually a little crazy.

We disagree with the assertion that great teachers can be replaced by online alternatives. The futuristic claim that technology will triumph over teachers ignores all the social and relational dimensions of teaching and learning.

No one can take it away from you.

Research shows that there is only half as much variation in student achievement between schools as there is among classrooms in the same school. If you want your child to get the best education possible, it is actually more important to get him assigned to a great teacher than to a great school.

All of modern acting comes from Stanislavski, who was the Russian partner to Chekhov. When Chekhov was writing his plays, Stanislavski was running his theater. And Stanislavski really was the first inventor of modern acting and then everything that came out of the method and Stella Adler and the great teachers really came out of him.

I never teach my pupils, I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.

Hope humbly then; with trembling pinions soar;Wait the great teacher, Death, and God adore;What future bliss He gives not thee to know,But gives that hope to be thy blessing now.

Wherever you find something extraordinary, you’ll find the fingerprints of a great teacher.

Put every great teacher in a room, and they’d agree about everything, but put their disciples in there and they’d argue about everything.

I used to think great teachers inspire you. Now I think I had it wrong. Good teachers inspire you; great teachers show you how to inspire yourself every day of your life. They don’t show you their magic. They show you how to make magic of your own.

Martin Luther King Jr. was a great teacher and just a great person in general.

A great teacher never strives to explain his vision. He simply invites you to stand beside him and see for yourself.

Most of us end up with no more than five or six people who remember us. Teachers have thousands of people who remember them for the rest of their lives.

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.

Estiven Rodriguez couldn’t speak a word of English when he moved to New York City at age nine. But last month, thanks to the support of great teachers and an innovative tutoring program, he led a march of his classmates – through a crowd of cheering parents and neighbors – from their high school to the post office, where they mailed off their college applications. And this son of a factory worker just found out he’s going to college this fall.

Students deserve great teachers. And teachers deserve the support they need to become great.

We have had this massive effort on K-12 reform, raising standards, great teachers, great principals, turning around chronically failing schools, raising the bar, huge amount of progress. Let’s continue that.

A good teacher can inspire hope, ignite the imagination, and instill a love of learning.

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