Quotes About Mentorship

When a guide meets up with someone who is lost, ordinarily his reaction is to direct him on the right path, not mock or malign him, then turn on his heel and walk away. As for you, lead someone to the truth and you will find that he can follow. But as long as you don't point it out to him, don't make fun of him; be aware of what you need to work on instead.

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.

The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.

That is the difference between good teachers and great teachers: good teachers make the best of a pupil's means great teachers foresee a pupil's ends.

We teachers can only help the work going on, as servants wait upon a master.

I was more than an elementary teacher, for I was present, or directly taught the children, from eight in the morning to seven in the evening without interruption. These two years of practice are my first and indeed my true degree in pedagogy. From the very beginning of my

CIO leaders must, above all, lead. And lead does not mean manage.

You are almost not free, if you are teaching a group of graduate students, to become friends with one of them. I don't mean anything erotically charged, just a friendship.

The duty of a good Cuisinier is to transmit to the next generation everything he has learned and experienced.

He is your friend who pushes you nearer to God.

I believe for everyone who goes astray, someone will come to show the way.

For me, a quarterback's best friend, especially a young quarterback's best friend, is a coach who believes in him.

Forever in debt to your priceless advice.

I want all the kids to do what I do, to look up to me. I want all the kids to copulate me.

Don't compete with anyone, compete with yourself. Surround yourself with people better than you, learn from them. Do the same for others that want to learn.

Sometimes in order to move forward it takes someone who cares enough to push you in the correct direction.

Anyone who does anything to help a child in his life is a hero to me.

Good teachers leave their footprints behind for others to walk in and continue the revolution.

To be an excellent teacher, you need to lower yourself to the knowledge level of your student.

The most direct and enduring way to reach the mind and imagination of the learner is through the mind, imagination and character of the outstanding teacher.

He who dares to teach must never cease to learn.

To teach a man how he may learn to grow independently, and for himself, is perhaps the greatest service that one man can do another.

One mark of a great educator is the ability to lead students out to new places where even the educator has never been

The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.