Criticism should not be querulous and wasting, all knife and root-puller, but guiding, instructive, inspiring.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

A mind is a fore to be kindled, not a vessel to be filled.

Plutarch

Education is a weapon, whose effect depends on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.

Joseph Stalin

The secret of education is respecting the pupils.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life is amazing; and the teacher had better prepare himself to be a medium for that amazement.

Edward Blishen

Tell me and I forget. Show me and I remember. Involve me and I understand.

Chinese proverbs