Instead, we try to give them affection, confidence and guidance, more or less in that order, because experience has shown us that those are their most immediate needs.
You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.
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Galileo Galilei
It is easier to write a book with footnotes than the same book written so that children can understand it.
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Fulton J. Sheen
Those who know, do. Those that understand, teach.
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Aristotle
I never teach my pupils, I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.
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Albert Einstein
I’ve come to a frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element in the classroom. It’s my personal approach that creates the climate. It’s my daily mood that makes the weather. As a teacher, I possess a tremendous power to make a child’s life miserable...
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Haim G. Ginott
More Quotes By E.R. Braithwaite
Today I was a teacher, employed. True, I was also a teacher untried, but that could also be an advantage. I would learn, by God I’d learn. Nothing was going to stop me.
Oh God, forgive me for the hateful thoughts, because I love them, these brutal, disarming bastards, I love them …
So long as we learn it doesn’t matter who teaches us, does it?
Instead, we try to give them affection, confidence and guidance, more or less in that order, because experience has shown us that those are their most immediate needs.
The betrayal I now felt was greater because it had been perpetrated with the greatest of charm and courtesy.
