Quotes About Mentoring

Youth I Stay close to the young and a little rubs off.

My father never permitted anything which I learnt to degenerate into a mere exercise of memory. He strove to make the understanding not only go along with every step of the teaching but...precede it.

I've always tried to coach people the way I would like to be coached; positively and encouragingly rather than with criticism and fear ... I've tried to be as fair as possible.

The Great Teachers in my Life never told me about my weaknesses. They only showed me my strength and then I was able to realize my weaknesses by myself.

In what is known as the 70/20/10 learning concept, Robert Eichinger and Michael Lombardo, in collaboration with Morgan McCall of the Center for Creative Leadership, explain that 70 percent of learning and development takes place from real-life and on-the-job experiences, tasks, and problem solving; 20 percent of the time development comes from other people through informal or formal feedback, mentoring, or coaching; and 10 percent of learning and development comes from formal training.

But one of the things I have learned during the time I have spent in the United States is an old African American saying: Each one, teach one. I want to believe that I am here to teach one and, more, that there is one here who is meant to teach me. And if we each one teach one, we will make a difference.

It's almost impossible to teach that sort of writing except by pointing students to a stack of clips and telling them, 'Inhale these.

People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.

A master can tell you what he expects of you. A teacher, though, awakens your own expectations.

What nobler employment, or more valuable to the state, than that of the man who instructs the rising generation?

We have the Troops to Teachers program, which encourages retired military individuals to go into teaching.

Fail #1: Coddling

When people have mentors like this, they grow up feeling safe and confident. As a result, they develop a strong core.

It takes people who have a widespread series of experiences to develop future leaders. It takes people who aren't afraid to challenge and move forward.

It is impossible to be a cynic if you live a good deal with young people. Fundamentally, every young person has a feeling that the future is going to hold something of value.

Be a mentor to others. Your most important legacy is preparing new leaders to carry on your goals.

This is how everyone has to begin, men who have never known a woman, women who have never known a man, until the day comes for the one who knows to teach the one who does not.

What would it profit us to possess and perform everything else and be like pure saints, if we meanwhile neglected our chief purpose in life, namely, the care of the young?

In elevating others, you elevate yourself.

Guide – don't judge – when coaching

People teach you two things, how to be and how not to be.

The single most important thing in a child's performance is the quality of the teacher. Making sure a child spends the maximum amount of time with inspirational teachers is the most important thing.

Teachers did not give knowledge and wisdom; they merely guided those who sought those things for themselves.

When people talk about training, they generally mean taking an amorphous mind and shaping it into something. It is the sort of thing that goes on at universities that are not yet in possession of high-quality students. It is not the sort of thing that should go on at serious centers of discovery. Mentoring, on the other hand, is productive, necessary, and enjoyable.