Teaching

"To educate as the practice of freedom is a way of teaching that anyone can learn."

 bell hooks

"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 disciple."

Amos Bronson Alcott

"The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards."

Anatole France

"The new man and the new woman will not be constructed in the heads of educators but in a new social practice, which will take the place of the old that has proven itself incapable of creating new persons."

Paulo Freire, Pedagogy-in-Process

"Critical education prepares students to be their own agents for social change, their own creators of democratic education."

Ira Shor, Critical Teaching & Everyday Life

"Faith in the learner leads some teachers to find strengths where others see nothing but weakness and failure."

Herbert Kohl, Growing Minds: On Becoming A Teacher

"The greatest sign of success for a teacher is to be able to say, 'The children are now working as if I did not exist.' " 

Maria Montessori

"A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops."

Henry Adams

"You will like me much better after you are gone."

Anonymous teacher

"Being a teacher offers so many blessings to those who can invite the world into their classroom."

Jim Burke, "Teaching Sisyphus to Juggle"