Mao Zedong Quotes

The teacher is the one who gets the most out of the lessons, and the true teacher is the learner.

If you become a teacher, by your pupils you'll be taught.

These middle-class professionals, when equipped with Leninist-Stalinist training, and a genuine Communist outlook, are of great service…but their entry presents to the Party new problems …

Learn from the masses and then teach them.

There seems to be hardly any one among my acquaintance from whom I have not learned.

Although the teachers or the students are not the same, the person in charge of education is being formed or re-formed as he/she teaches, and the person who is being taught forms him/herself in the process. ...There is, in fact, no teaching without learning.

Not only does social life demand teaching and learning for its own permanence, but the very process of living together educates. It enlarges and enlightens experience; it stimulates and enriches imagination; it creates responsibility for accuracy and vividness of statement and thought.

Be pupils of the masses as well as their teachers.

Just as we're all students throughout life, we're all teachers. In fact, we learn best by offering what we desire for ourselves to as many individuals as we can, as frequently as we can.....Following this line of thinking, it's imperative that we make deliberate effort to increase our inspirational energy, as this will lead us to being both a spiritual learner and teacher simultaneously.

Imparting education not only enlightens the receiver, but also broadens the giver - the teachers, the parents, the friends.

A teacher who establishes rapport with the taught, becomes one with them, learns more from them than he teaches them. He who learns nothing from his disciples is, in my opinion, worthless. Whenever I talk with someone I learn from him. I take from him more than I give him.

The development occurs through reciprocal give-and-take, the teacher taking but not being afraid also to give.

Learning is a process of mutual discovery for teacher and pupil. Keep an open mind to their unexpected responses.

Through dialogue, the teacher-of-the-students and the students-of-the-teacher cease to exist and a new term emerges: teacher-student with students-teachers.

The more you teach positive ideas to others, the better you learn them yourself.

Where I grew up, learning was a collective activity. But when I got to school and tried to share learning with other students that was called cheating. The curriculum sent the clear message to me that learning was a highly individualistic, almost secretive, endeavor. My working class experience...was disparaged.

Mentoring is a mutuality that requires more than meeting the right teacher: the teacher must meet the right student.

Education is the sum of what students teach each other between lectures and seminars.

A fig-tree looking on a fig-tree becometh fruitful," says the Arabian proverb. And so it is with children; their first great instructor is example.

I have an infamously low capacity for visualizing relationships, which made the study of geometry and all subjects derived from it impossible for me.

[The Barefoot College is] the only college where the teacher is the learner and the learner is the teacher.

Example, whether it be good or bad, has a powerful influence.

The ideal teacher student relationship exists when the student is better than the teacher.

The teacher is no longer merely the-one-who-teaches, but one who is him/herself taught in dialogue with the students, who in turn while being taught also teach. They become jointly responsible for a process in which all grow.

No force, no torture, no intrigue can eradicate Marxism-Leninism from the minds and hearts of men.