He who does not research has nothing to teach.

We will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught.

The secret of teaching is to appear to have known all your life what you just learned this morning.

Do not train a child to learn by force or 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.

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.

The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself.

Never offer to teach a fish to swim.

I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.

Teaching is of more importance than urging.

He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.