Benevolence alone will not make a teacher, nor will learning alone do it. The gift of teaching is a peculiar talent, and implies a need and a craving in the teacher himself.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
To teach one's self is to be forced to learn twice.
Parents are supposed to instruct their kids. It doesn't mean they necessarily have that gift of teaching.
To be a teacher you have to have a very giving, selfless personality. I don't think I'm that selfless and giving.
The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without his teacher.
Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process.
Teachers believe they have a gift for giving; it drives them with the same irrepressible drive that drives others to create a work of art or a market or a building.
As a teacher I realize that what one learns in school doesn't serve for very much at all, that the only thing one can really learn is self-understanding, and this is something that can't be taught.
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.
No one should teach who is not in love with teaching.
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