Teachers open the door. You enter by yourself.

—Chinese proverb

More quotations from Chinese proverb

When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other.

—Chinese proverb

When you drink the water, remember the spring.

—Chinese proverb

To know the road ahead, ask those coming back.

—Chinese proverb

The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.

—Chinese proverb

Raise your sail one foot and you get ten feet of wind.

—Chinese proverb

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Passive acceptance of the teacher's wisdom is easy to most boys and girls. It involves no effort of independent thought, and seems rational because the teacher knows more than his pupils; it is moreover the way to win the favour of the teacher unless he is a very exceptional man. Yet the habit of passive acceptance is a disastrous one in later life. It causes man to seek and to accept a leader, and to accept as a leader whoever is established in that position.

—Bertrand Russell

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 true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence.

—Amos Bronson Alcott

I have come gradually to understand that the liberal arts cliché about teaching you how to think is actually shorthand for a much deeper, more serious idea: learning how to think really means learning how to exercise some control over how and what you think. It means being conscious and aware enough to choose what you pay attention to and to choose how you construct meaning from experience. Because if you cannot exercise this kind of choice in adult life, you will be totally hosed. Think of the old cliché about quote the mind being an excellent servant but a terrible master.

—David Foster Wallace

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School is an institution built on the axiom that learning is the result of teaching. And institutional wisdom continues to accept this axiom, despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary.

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11 Jul 2015 Added