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Quotes About Mentorship

What is desired is that the teacher ceased being a lecturer, satisfied with transmitting ready-made solutions. His role should rather be that of a mentor stimulating initiative and research.
~ Jean Piaget
I'm a teacher. A teacher is someone who leads. There is no magic here. I do not walk on water. I do not part the sea. I just love children.
~ Marva Collins
A teacher in search of his/her own freedom may be the only kind of teacher who can arouse young persons to go in search of their own
~ Maxine Greene
A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.
~ Henry Adams
True teachers are those who use themselves as bridges over which they invite their students to cross; then, having facilitated their crossing, joyfully collapse, encouraging them to create their own.
~ Nikos Kazantzakis
Three things give the student the possibility of surpassing his teacher: ask a lot of questions, remember the answers, teach.
~ John Amos Comenius
A good teacher must be able to put himself in the place of those who find learning hard.
~ Éliphas Lévi
A true teacher doesn't teach you to think like him, but to think without him.
~ Tariq Ramadan
Wherever you go you will find your teacher, as long as you have the eyes to see and the ears to hear.
~ Shunryu Suzuki
I am firm in my belief that a teacher lives on and on through his students. Good teaching is forever and the and the teacher is immortal.
~ Jesse Stuart
A true teacher does not terrorize ignorant students, because a true teacher knows that it is his job to cure ignorance.
~ Miriam Defensor Santiago
When I was a freshman in high school, my drama teacher, an incredible, inspirational genius, the guy who got me into acting, he encouraged me to get the lead in a musical. They didn't have any guys.
~ Casey Affleck
A teacher is never too smart to learn from his pupils.
~ Bill Bowerman
When you learn, teach. When you get, give. Maya Angelou taught me that.
~ Oprah Winfrey
You can pay people to teach, But you can't pay them to care.
~ Marva Collins
Reviewing what you have learned and learning anew, you are fit to be a teacher.
~ Confucius
True teachers not only impart knowledge and method but awaken the love of learning by their own reflected love.
~ Robert Grudin
A good teacher who can take the zero pay and help kids develop physically, emotionally, socially, is literally an angel.
~ Eva Amurri
It is commonly said that a teacher fails if he has not been surpassed by his students.
~ Edmond H. Fischer
Teachers open the door ... you enter by yourself.
~ Confucius
Good teachers teach. Great teachers transform.
~ Queen Rania of Jordan
Sometimes a simple, almost insignificant gesture on the part of a teacher can have a profound formative effect on the life of a student.
~ Paulo Freire
Of all the hard jobs around, one of the hardest is being a good teacher.
~ Maggie Gallagher
We are all teachers, or should be. Anyone who relays experience to another person is a teacher. Not to transmit your experience is to betray it.
~ Elie Wiesel