QUOTES ABOUT TEACHERS
AND TEACHING
On this Guru Purnima Day (July 3), let us share some quotes about teachers and teaching. Briefly
speaking, teachers are not as great as gurus. While they (teachers) impart knowledge,
gurus dispel darkness of minds and souls. They enlighten their pupils thoroughly.
Lord Buddha is a great example of a perfect guru.
Here are some
quotes about teachers and teaching:
- Alexander the
Great (356-323 B.C), the King of Macdon said: I am indebted to my
father for living, but to my teacher for living well.
- American author Mrs. Lydia H, Sigourney
(1791-1865) said: Teachers should be held in the highest honour. They are
the allies of legislators; they have agency in the prevention of crime;
they aid in regulating the atmosphere, whose incessant action and pressure
cause the life-blood to circulate and to return pure and healthful to the
heart of the nation.
- According to another American author Horace Mann
(1796-1859) the teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil
with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.
- French essayist and philosopher Michel de
Montaigne (1533-92) says : A tutor should not be continually thundering
instruction into the ears of his pupil, as if he were pouring it through a
funnel, but induce him to think, to distinguish, and to find out things
for himself; sometimes opening the way, at other times leaving it for him
to open; and to accommodate his precepts to the capacity of his pupil.
- Finally, let us listen to French author Anatole
France: Let our teaching be full of ideas. Hitherto it has been stuffed
only with facts.
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G.R.Kanwal
3rd July 2023
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