Quotes in teaching

Experience teaches only the teachable.

The task of the educator lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility and evil with activity.

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.

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

We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.