A man who knows a subject thoroughly, a man so soaked in it that he eats it, sleeps it and dreams it- this man can always teach it with success, no matter how little he knows of technical pedagogy.
It is commonly said that a teacher fails if he has not been surpassed by his students.
For all the best teachers pride themselves on having a large number of pupils and think themselves worthy of a bigger audience.
You have not taught until they have learned.
You haven't taught until they've learned.
...suddenly you hit on something that the student really responds to, you can see the eyes open and the complexion change. The life possibility has opened there. All you can say to yourself is, "I hope this child hangs on to that."
A good teacher creates an environment which allows the student to succeed.
A very wise old teacher once said: I consider a day's teaching wasted if we do not all have one hearty laugh.
No bubble is so iridescent or floats longer than that blown by the successful teacher.
The same is true of Love, and the instinctive desire to please those whom we love. The teacher who succeeds in getting herself loved by the pupils will obtain results which one of a more forbidding temperament finds it impossible to secure.
I have students who are now in chairs in five continents. They invite me to their inaugurals. A tremendous reward.
To waken interest and kindle enthusiasm is the sure way to teach easily and successfully.
One might as well say he has sold when no one has bought as to say he has taught when no one has learned.
If we fail to interest, whether because we are dull and heavy, or because our hearers are so, we teach in vain.
