Confucius Quotes

Example isn't another way to teach, it is the only way to teach.

I had an inspirational teacher at my junior school: Peter Nixon. He was enthusiastic, knowledgeable and slightly scary - a good combination for a teacher.

I think the best teachers had a real interest in the subject they were teaching and a love for children.

My main teachers were my father and my mother and my brother.

Education of youth is not a bow for every man to shoot in that counts himself a teacher; but will require sinews almost equal to those which Homer gave to Ulysses.

...being an effective teacher is a high calling.

To know psychology, therefore, is absolutely no guarantee that we shall be good teacher.

The shy man will not learn; the impatient man should not teach.

Teaching is more difficult than learning because what teaching calls for is this: to let learn. The real teacher, in fact, lets nothing else be learned than learning. His conduct, therefore, often produces the impression that we properly learn nothing from him, if by "learning" we now suddenly understand merely the procurement of useful information.

The key to fixing education is better teaching, and the key to better teaching is figuring out who can teach and who can't.

To govern is to correct. If you set an example by being correct, who would dare to remain incorrect?

In the Western tradition, we have focused on teaching as a skill and forgotten what Socrates knew: teaching is a gift, learning is a skill.

No teacher has ever been better prepared to teach a lesson.

The sun and moon shine on all without partiality.

Good teaching cannot be reduced to technique; good teaching comes from the identity and integrity of the teacher.

It is man that makes truth great, and not truth that makes man great.

The best teacher of children, in brief, is one who is essentially childlike.

By nature, men are nearly alike; by practice, they get to be wide apart.

Instead of trying to educate the human race, they should imitate the pedagogues of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, who concentrated their efforts on the education of a single person.

It cannot be when the root is neglected that what springs from it will be well ordered.

And there's no "I love you" message because Steve Ovett has married the girl

When you see a good person, think of becoming like her/him. When you see someone not so good, reflect on your own weak points.

You teach best that which you need most to learn.

Looking at small advantages prevents great affairs from being accomplished.

The responsibility of building leadership in the Church belongs to the father and the mother. . . . As youth grow and mature through their teenage years and move toward adulthood, the Church picks up an important role in this process of giving youth an opportunity to lead, but it begins in the home.