Maimonides Quotes

The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence .

It was never shameful to learn from any teacher things that are useful to know.

The best teacher lodges an intent not in the mind but in the heart.

The purpose of studying Buddhism is not to study Buddhism, but to study ourselves. That is why we have teaching. But the teaching is not ourselves. It is some explanation of ourselves. To study the teaching is to know yourselves. That is why we do not ever attach to the teaching, or to the teacher. The moment you meet a teacher you should leave the teacher, and you should be independent. You want a teacher so that you can be independent. So you study yourselves. You have the teacher for yourselves, not for the teacher.

If I can get them to think, get them to feel, get them to see, then I've done about all that I can as a teacher.

God help the teacher, if a man of sensibility and genius, when a booby father presents him with his booby son, and insists on lighting up the rays of science in a fellow's head whose skull is impervious and inaccessible by any other way than a positive fracture with a cudgel.

In all teaching there must be a fusion of authority as an adult providing a stable framework for the children in one's care, and humility as another human being ready to educate an equal who may turn out to be a superior.

Being a teacher is not what I do, it's who I am.

If we do not plant knowledge when young, it will give us no shade when we are old.

The teacher left her wisdom, in the minds of lots of children, and did her best to give them all a better start.

My father was an angry and impatient teacher and flung the reading book at my head.

Students never appreciate their teachers while they are learning. It is only later, when they know more of the world, that they understand how indebted they are to those who instructed them. Good teachers expect no praise or love from the young. They wait for it, and in time, it comes.

Back in the class room, open your books, keep up, the teacher don't know how mean she looks.

Simply put, the best teachers are the ones you work your tail off for because in the end you just don't want them to think any less of you. You want and need their approval.

Mistakes are often the best teachers.

You have no idea how unimportant is all that the teacher says or does not say on the surface, and how important what he himself is as teacher.

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

A teacher is never too smart to learn from his pupils.

Outside his office my father had a framed copy of a letter written by Abraham Lincoln to his son's teacher, translated into Pashto. It is a very beautiful letter, full of good advice. Teach him, if you can, the wonder of books...But also give him quiet time to ponder the eternal mystery of birds in the sky, bees in the sun, and the flowers on a green hillside, it says. Teach him it is far more honorable to fail than to cheat.

Time is the best of critics; and patience the best of teachers.

People always form images of who others are, and they can be inflated images. People may not realize that the enormous energy and spiritual power that comes through a teacher, especially in a teaching situation, has nothing to do with that person.

Yesterday should be the teacher of today.

What was the duty of the teacher if not to inspire?

It takes a great deal of living to get a little deal of learning.

One of the main truths of all education is that if the young are not always right, the old are always wrong.