“A good teacher must know the rules; a good pupil, the exceptions.”
Martin H. Fischer (1879–1962) American university teacher (1879-1962)
Fischerisms (1944)
““Culture” means … the cultivation of the mind, the taking care and improving of the native faculties of the mind in accordance with the nature of the mind. Just as the soil needs cultivators of the soil, the mind needs teachers. But teachers are not as easy to come by as farmers. The teachers themselves are pupils and must be pupils. But there cannot be an infinite regress: ultimately there must be teachers who are not in turn pupils. Those teachers who are not in turn pupils are the great minds.”
“What is liberal education,” p. 3
Liberalism Ancient and Modern (1968)
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Bel Kaufmanová book Up the Down Staircase
Part VI, ch. 29 (Samuel Bester)
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Oscar Hammerstein II (1895–1960) American librettist, theatrical producer, and (usually uncredited) theatre director of musicals
"Getting to Know You", The King and I (1956).
Horace Mann (1796–1859) American politician
As quoted in The Eclectic Magazine Vol. VII, (January - June 1868)
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The teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.
As quoted in School Arts (1935) by Art Study and Teaching Periodicals, p. 91
A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on a cold iron.
As quoted in Making Minds Less Well Educated Than Our Own (2004) by Roger C. Schank, p. 151
“One repays a teacher badly if one always remains nothing but a pupil.”
Friedrich Nietzsche book Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Source: Thus Spoke Zarathustra
“A good teacher protects his pupils from his own influence.”
Bruce Lee (1940–1973) Hong Kong-American actor, martial artist, philosopher and filmmaker
“The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence.”
Amos Bronson Alcott (1799–1888) American teacher and writer
LXXX. TEACHER
Orphic Sayings
Context: The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-trust. He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him. He will have no disciples. A noble artist, he has visions of excellence and revelations of beauty, which he has neither impersonated in character, nor embodied in words. His life and teachings are but studies for yet nobler ideals.
