Saiful Islam > Saiful's Quotes

“[Kids] don't remember what you try to teach them. They remember what you are.”
― Jim Henson, It's Not Easy Being Green: And Other Things to Consider

“You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.”
― Galileo

“I am afraid that the schools will prove the very gates of hell, unless they diligently labor in explaining the Holy Scriptures and engraving them in the heart of the youth.”
― Martin Luther

“The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without a teacher.”
― Elbert Hubbard

“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

“Experience teaches only the teachable.”
― Aldous Huxley

“A child who is protected from all controversial ideas is as vulnerable as a child who is protected from every germ. The infection, when it comes- and it will come- may overwhelm the system, be it the immune system or the belief system.”
― Jane Smiley

“I never teach my pupils, I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.”
― Albert Einstein

“Seek opportunities to show you care. The smallest gestures often make the biggest difference.”
― John Wooden

“Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased.”
― J. Krishnamurti

“To know how to suggest is the art of teaching.”
― Henri Frederic Amiel

“My words itch at your ears till you understand them”
― Walt Whitman, Song of Myself

“I'm more interested in arousing enthusiasm in kids than in teaching the facts. The facts may change, but that enthusiasm for exploring the world will remain with them the rest of their lives.”
― Seymour Simon

“Evil prevails when good people do nothing.”
― Erin Gruwell, The Freedom Writers Diary

“The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of the mind for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.”
― Anatole France

“I'm a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn't have the heart to let him down.”
― Abraham Lincoln