Sean Baker Quotes

The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.

He that teaches us anything which we knew not before is undoubtedly to be reverenced as a master.

The man who knows how will always be the student, but the man who knows why will continue to be the instructor.

Teaching is the highest art; before the doctor, there was a teacher.

In learning you will teach, and in teaching you will learn.

I could undertake to be an efficient pupil if it were possible to find an efficient teacher.

I teach.

What students lack in school is an intellectual relationship or conversation with the teacher.

The teacher that I was for decades, and that I still am in a certain way, wondered what was meant by the word education. I was truly dumbfounded at the very thought of dealing with such an essential and extensive subject.

Great teachers transcend ideology.

I cannot emphasize enough the importance of a good teacher.

Having been an educator for so many years I know that all a good teacher can do is set a context, raise questions or enter into a kind of a dialogic relationship with their students.

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

I count myself well educated, for the admirable woman at the head of the school which I attended from the age of four and a half till I was thirteen and a half, was a born teacher in advance of her own times.

The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.

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

The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.

Any place that anyone can learn something useful from someone with experience is an educational institution.

The great want of our race is perfect educators to train new-born minds, who are infallible teachers of what is right and true.

The role of the teacher remains the highest calling of a free people. To the teacher, America entrusts her most precious resource, her children; and asks that they be prepared... to face the rigors of individual participation in a democratic society.

Teachers are performers, just like I am.

If we had in this room a hundred teachers, good teachers from good schools, and asked them to define the word education, there would be very little general agreement.

If you don't have a teacher you can't have a disciple.

Teaching is the royal road to learning.

Teachers are by nature idealists, and they believe anything can be learned.