Quotes About Independence

The true teachers are those who help us think for ourselves.

You can't teach people everything they need to know. The best you can do is position them where they can find what they need to know when they need to know it.

How can the child learn to be a free and responsible citizen when the teacher is bound?

A true teacher doesn't teach you to think like him, but to think without him.

Never do anything for a student that he he is capable of doing for himself. If you do you, you'll make him an educational cripple...a pedagogical paraplegic.

Can teachers successfully educate children to think for themselves if teachers are not treated as professionals who think for themselves?

Teachers open the door ... you enter by yourself.

The object of teaching a child is to enable the child to get along without the teacher. We need to educate our children for their future, not our past.

There is no need of a teacher for those who know how to think.

Teach a child how to think, not what to think.

If you give me rice, I'll eat today; if you teach me how to grow rice, I'll eat every day.

The ideal teacher guides his students but does not pull them along; he urges them to go forward and does not suppress them; he opens the way but does not take them to the place.

You must look most intimately and discover for yourself; then it is your own, not somebody else's, not something that you have been told, because there is no teacher and no follower.

No one can take it away from you.

A man is not what he is because of the teachers he has had, but because of what he has done

A good teacher protects his pupils from his own influence.

A true teacher would never tell you what to do. But he would give you the knowledge with which you could decide what would be best for you to do.

The environment itself will teach the child, if every error he makes is manifest to him, without the intervention of a parent of teacher, who should remain a quiet observer of all that happens.

The instructions of the teacher consist then merely in a hint, a touch-enough to give a start to the child. The rest develops of itself.

The children are now working as if I did not exist.

Be your own teacher. Let life write your textbook.

I'm a teacher, not a leader. If you lose your leader, you're leaderless and lost, but if you lose your teacher there's a chance that he taught you something and you can navigate on your own.

What did you learn in school that you still use today? Go ahead teachers, tell me. What? Fear, conformity, don't question authority.

Cultivate your garden. Do not depend upon teachers to educate you... follow your own bent, pursue your curiosity bravely, express yourself, make your own harmony.