The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without his teacher.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The most important thing that parents can teach their children is how to get along without them.
The processes of teaching the child that everything cannot be as he wills it are apt to be painful both to him and to his teacher.
The educator wants the child to be finished at once and perfect. He forces upon the child an unnatural degree of self-mastery, a devotion to duty, a sense of honour - habits that adults get out of with astonishing rapidity.
The duties of a teacher are neither few nor small, but they elevate the mind and give energy to the character.
We can teach a lot of things, but if the teacher can't relate by talking to a group of friendly students, he'll never be a competent teacher.
I think that the only way to teach is by example, as children will more easily follow what they see you do than what you tell them to do.
Since every effort in our educational life seems to be directed toward making of the child a being foreign to itself, it must of necessity produce individuals foreign to one another, and in everlasting antagonism with each other.
The task of the educator lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility and evil with activity.
No child is un-teachable. I will never give up on any kid. Every child can learn.
A child's learning is a function more of the characteristics of his classmates than those of the teacher.