Author name: inspired

Therefore, a person should first be changed by a teacher’s instructions, and guided by principles of ritual. Only then can he observe the rules of courtesy and humility, obey the conventions and rules of society, and achieve order. – Xun Zi

The true aim of everyone who aspires to be a teacher should be, not to impart his own opinions, but to kindle minds. – Frederick William Robertson

The secret of successful teaching is to teach accurately, thoroughly, and earnestly; this will impart interest to instructions, and awaken attention to them. All sciences, in their nature or connections, are replete with interest, if teachers properly illustrate and impress their truths in a pleasing, earnest manner. – C. Simmons

You never stop learning. If you have a teacher, you never stop being a student. – Elisabeth Rohm

There’s many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher. – Flannery O’Connor

Thoroughly to teach another is the best way to learn for yourself. – Tryon Edwards

Writing, I’m convinced, should be a subversive activity – frowned on by the authorities – and not one cooed over and praised beyond common sense by some teacher. – Dan Simmons

What a blind person needs is not a teacher but another self. – Helen Keller

Thus, the standard library will serve as both a tool and as a teacher. – Bjarne Stroustrup

You really have to be a morning person if you want to be a teacher. – Alanna Ubach

Whatever you would have your children become, strive to exhibit in your own lives and conversation. – Mrs. Sigourney

The great end of education is to discipline rather than to furnish the mind; to train it to the use of its own powers rather than to fill it with the accumulation of others.” — Tyron Edwards