24 Quotes Tagged: mentoring

No one learns as much about a subject as one who is forced to teach it.

I am not a teacher, but an awakener.

Conflict is just another chance for agreement.

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

True education does not consist merely in the acquiring of a few facts of science, history, literature, or art, but in the development of character.

I rather mistrust young men who slip into life gracefully.

What is a teacher? I'll tell you: it isn't someone who teaches something, but someone who inspires the student to give of her best in order to discover what she already knows.

The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.

"We have to make these young people (of the Depression) feel that they are necessary. (They should be given) "certain things for which youth craves – the chance for self-sacrifice for an ideal.

He not only had the gift of “reading” men and women, of seeing into their hearts, he also had the gift of putting himself in their place, of not just seeing what they felt but of feeling what they felt, almost as if what had happened to them had happened to him, too.

When a young person, even a gifted one, grows up without proximate living examples of what she may aspire to become — whether lawyer, scientist, artist, or leader in any realm — her goal remains abstract. Such models as appear in books or on the news, however inspiring or revered, are ultimately too remote to be real, let alone influential. But a role model in the flesh provides more than inspiration; his or her very existence is confirmation of possibilities one may have every reason to doubt, saying, 'Yes, someone like me can do this.

"Writing can be taught or learned in the vacuum. We must say to students in every area of knowledge: "This is a how other people have written about this subject. Read it; study it; think about it. You can do it too.

The best teacher is not the one who knows most but the one who is most capable of reducing knowledge to that simple compound of the obvious and wonderful.

Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.

The barriers are not erected which can say to [aspiring] talents and industry, “Thus far and no farther.