Kenzaburo Oe Quotes

It is commonly said that a teacher fails if he has not been surpassed by his students. There has been no failure on our part in this regard considering how far they have gone.

One of my favorite sayings is, 'Much have I learned from my teachers, but even more from my friends and even more from my students.'

It's the student who makes the teacher, not the other way around.

The greatest sign of success for a teacher... is to be able to say, 'The children are now working as if I did not exist.'

My attitude toward graduate students was different, I must say. I used graduate students as colleagues: I gave them the best problems to work on, and I encouraged them.

It's the teacher that makes the difference, not the classroom.

I am a teacher born and bred, and I believe in the advocacy of teachers. It's a calling. We want our students to feel impassioned and empowered.

There is something mysteriously powerful that can happen when young, inchoate minds come into contact with older and more worldly ones in a spirit of intellectual and creative endeavour - if I believed in progress, I suppose that's what I'd call it.

The educator must believe in the potential power of his pupil, and he must employ all his art in seeking to bring his pupil to experience this power.

The teachers are trying to build the same culture in the classroom as we're building in the organization.

Teachers have told us across the country that what's severely outdated is the teacher at the front of the classroom as the font of knowledge, because as we know, access to knowledge and information is now ubiquitous. So instead, teachers want to help students learn how to think so that they can be lifelong learners.

It is generally believed that it is the students who derive benefit by working under the guidance of a professor. In reality, the professor benefits equally by his association with gifted students working under him.

I feel like we can learn from each other by us, being the young generation, giving knowledge to the older guys.

We are all teachers, or should be. Anyone who relays experience to another person is a teacher. Not to transmit your experience is to betray it.

It is commonly said that a teacher fails if he has not been surpassed by his students.

The successful teacher is no longer on a height, pumping knowledge at high pressure into passive receptacles.

A good teacher creates an environment which allows the student to succeed.

I have always felt that the true text-book for the pupil is his teacher

A true teacher does not terrorize ignorant students, because a true teacher knows that it is his job to cure ignorance.

It's evolution, man. Eventually the student becomes the teacher.

The proudest moment for [a teacher of leaders] is seeing not what students learn but what they do.

As you get older - for example, in our band we have members of our orchestra, like Carlos Enriquez and Ali Jackson and Walter Blanning. I taught them when they were in high school, and now they teach me.I'll regularly call Ali and say, "Man, can you break this rhythm down for me?" Or Carlos was actually our music director in Cuba, and he's been instrumental in a lot of my education, and I started to develop a saying with them, because they tease me all the time - you get older, you have that familiar relationship - I say, "You have to follow your young leadership, too."

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 work of education is divided between the teacher and the environment.

The good teacher makes the poor student good and the good student superior.