Teacher Quotes - Page 4

Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn.

It's much easier, after all, to learn mathematics from someone who's made a few mistakes. It's impossible to learn it from someone who always gets it right.

The teacher is a catalyst to convert information from a high energy state (list of facts) to a low energy state (visual concept associated with known concepts).

It is the 'Teacher', that shapes a novice; not only with his studies, but character too.

...action is in fact knowledge in operation. Right action stems from right knowledge. Right knowledge is acquired through the teacher.

It has truly been said that 'Humility is not so much a virtue as a necessity, in order to learn.

If you seek a teacher, try to become a real student. If you want to be a student, try to find a real teacher.

The man who knows must discharge a function. The one who does not, cannot arrogate one to himself; he can only try to do so.

None should say: 'I can trust' or 'I cannot trust' until he is a master of the option, of trusting or not trusting.

We need people who push boundaries rather than retreat inside them.

A good teacher does something more than teaching; he makes you start learning.

The best teachers are those who show you where to look, but don't tell you what to see.

The Sufis are unanimous that a Guide (Sheikh) is absolutely essential, though never available on demand: 'the Sufis are not merchants'.

If the path has been laid down, why the successive appearance of different teachers? Why would anyone reinvent the wheel, if everything were as cosy and sequential as primitive longing so easily convinces us?

Collaboration allows teachers to capture each other's fund of collective intelligence.