Academic chairs are many, but wise and noble teachers are few; lecture-rooms are numerous and large, but the number of young people who genuinely thirst after truth and justice is small.

I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.

The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-distrust. He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him. He will have no disciple.

One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the...

Most subjects at universities are taught for no other purpose than that they may be re-taught when the students become teachers.

A schoolteacher or professor cannot educate individuals, he educates only species.

The teacher is one who makes two ideas grow where only one grew before.

The teacher gives not of his wisdom, but rather of his faith and lovingness.

The man who can make hard things easy is the educator.