Quote for the day 12-12-2014
Friday, December 12th, 2014” A teacher who is attempting to teach, without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn, is hammering on a cold iron.” – Horace Mann (1796-1859)
” A teacher who is attempting to teach, without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn, is hammering on a cold iron.” – Horace Mann (1796-1859)
“A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.” – Thomas Carruthers
“Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.” – Benjamin Franklin
“If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, the excitement, and the mystery of the world we live in.” – Rachel Carson
The greatest sign of a success for a teacher…is to be able to say, “The children are now working as if I did not exist.” – Maria Montessori
“Do not train children to learning by force and harshness, but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each.” – Plato
“The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.” – Kahlil Gibran
“Every truth has four corners: as a teacher I give you one corner, and it is for you to find the other three.” – Confucius
“If a seed of a lettuce will not grow, we do not blame the lettuce. Instead, the fault lies with us for not having nourished the seed properly.” – Buddhist Proverb
We have seen the waves of the sea and rocks on the shore. Rocks have the power, waves have the persistence. Waves weaker in strength compared to the strong rocks persistently hit the rock . And at the end waves shape the rocks. Whether you have strength or not if you have persistence you will […]