„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.“

„Crosses?"
"Definitely"
"Why?"
"Because they're evil, soulless, bloodsucking fiends?"
"So was my sixth-grade gym teacher, but he wasn't afraid of a cross.“

—  Rachel Caine, livro Glass Houses

Fonte: Glass Houses

„Through dialogue, the teacher-of-the-students and the students-of-the-teacher cease to exist and a new term emerges: teacher-student with students-teachers.“

—  Paulo Freire educator and philosopher 1921 - 1997

Fonte: Pedagogia do oprimido (Pedagogy of the Oppressed) (1968, English trans. 1970), Chapter 2

„Many instructional arrangements seem "contrived", but there is nothing wrong with that. It is the teacher's function to contrive conditions under which students learn. Their relevance to a future usefulness need not be obvious.
It is a difficult assignment. The conditions the teacher arranges must be powerful enough to compete with those under which the student tends to behave in distracting ways.“

—  B.F. Skinner American behaviorist 1904 - 1990

"Free and Happy Student" in The Phi Delta Kappan (September 1973); later published in Reflections on Behaviorism and Society (1978)

„It's the student who makes the teacher, not the other way around.“

—  Carlos Ruiz Zafón, livro O Jogo do Anjo

Fonte: The Angel's Game

„It is the teacher's function to contrive conditions under which students learn. Their relevance to a future usefulness need not be obvious.“

—  B.F. Skinner American behaviorist 1904 - 1990

"Free and Happy Student" in The Phi Delta Kappan (September 1973); later published in Reflections on Behaviorism and Society (1978).
Contexto: Many instructional arrangements seem "contrived", but there is nothing wrong with that. It is the teacher's function to contrive conditions under which students learn. Their relevance to a future usefulness need not be obvious.
It is a difficult assignment. The conditions the teacher arranges must be powerful enough to compete with those under which the student tends to behave in distracting ways.

„Teachers should prepare the student for the student's future, not for the teacher's past.“

—  Richard Hamming American mathematician and information theorist 1915 - 1998

Preface
The Art of Doing Science and Engineering: Learning to Learn (1991)

„The ideal teacher student relationship exists when the student is better than the teacher.“

—  Kenzaburō Ōe Japanese author 1935

p 92
Shizuka-na seikatsu (A Quiet Life) (1990)

„Those who remove our troubles, dispel our doubts, and bestow peace are true teachers. They perform a Godlike work. Their opposites (those who increase our doubts and difficulties) are harmful to us and should be avoided like poison.“

—  Yukteswar Giri, livro The Holy Science

The Holy Science

„Beware of those who come pretending to help education when they are trying to seize control of education. Socialist and Communist planners have ambitions to eliminate all local control - which means the teachers themselves would lose control.“

—  W. Cleon Skousen, livro The Naked Communist

The Naked Communist (1958)

„Fears to look bad in front of other people, to say something wrong, to be laughed at - all those fears deprive us of half of our abilities. This is one of the main school problems. That teacher understands it, who can teach students to study without fear of the teacher, without fear of classmates, and, the most important, without fear of a subject.“

—  Simon Soloveychik Russia writer and philosopher 1930 - 1996

Fonte: The Last Book (1999), Ch.20 (In Russian, Последняя книга,1999, ISBN 5-8246-0030-9

„Education must begin with the solution of the teacher-student contradiction, by reconciling the poles of the contradiction so that both are simultaneously teachers and students.“

—  Paulo Freire educator and philosopher 1921 - 1997

Fonte: Pedagogia do oprimido (Pedagogy of the Oppressed) (1968, English trans. 1970), Chapter 2

„Teachers must have a positive mind. If their attitude is negative, it infects their students.“

—  Koichi Tohei Japanese aikidoka 1920 - 2011

27
Ki Sayings (2003)
Contexto: When you teach people it is useless to try to change their character. Correct their bad habits first, then their true character can come through. Teachers must have a positive mind. If their attitude is negative, it infects their students. Students cannot learn from bad examples until they develop their own powers of judgement.

„There are many teachers who could ruin you. Before you know it you could be a pale copy of this teacher or that teacher. You have to evolve on your own.“

—  Berenice Abbott American photographer 1898 - 1991

„Brethren, it is not the thinker who is the true king of men, as we sometimes hear it proudly said. We need one who will not only show, but be the Truth; who will not only point, but open and be the Way; who will not only communicate thought, but give, because He is the Life. Not the rabbi's pulpit, nor the teacher's desk, still less the gilded chairs of earthly monarchs, least of all the' tents of conquerors, are the throne of the true king. He rules from the cross.“

—  Alexander Maclaren British minister 1826 - 1910

Fonte: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 78.

„The teacher is of course an artist, but being an artist does not mean that he or she can make the profile, can shape the students. What the educator does in teaching is to make it possible for the students to become themselves.“

—  Paulo Freire educator and philosopher 1921 - 1997

Fonte: We Make the Road by Walking: Conversations on Education and Social Change

„The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence.“

—  Amos Bronson Alcott American teacher and writer 1799 - 1888

LXXX. TEACHER
Orphic Sayings
Contexto: The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-trust. He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him. He will have no disciples. A noble artist, he has visions of excellence and revelations of beauty, which he has neither impersonated in character, nor embodied in words. His life and teachings are but studies for yet nobler ideals.

„Television encourages separation: people from community, people from each other, people from themselves, creating more buying units and discouraging organized opposition to the system. It creates a surrogate community: Itself. It becomes everyone’s intimate advisor, teacher and guide to appropriate behavior and awareness. Thereby, it becomes its own feedback system, furthering its own growth and accelerating the transformation of everything and everyone into artificial form. This enables a handful of people to obtain a unique degree of power.“

—  Jerry Mander American activist 1936

Fonte: Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television (1978), p. 133

„Teachers of science in schools and colleges must be masters of the tools for ensuring integrity in science and must instill them in their students.“

—  Lewis M. Branscomb physicist and science policy advisor 1926

1994, p. 45
Integrity in Science (1985)

„Children must be under authority, and are themselves aware that they must be, although they like to play a game of rebellion at times. The case of children is unique in the fact that those who have authority over them are sometimes fond of them. Where this is the case, the children do not resent the authority in general, even when they resist it on particular occasions. Education authorities, as opposed to teachers, have not this merit, and do in fact sacrifice the children to what they consider the good of the State by teaching them "patriotism," i. e., a willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.“

—  Bertrand Russell logician, one of the first analytic philosophers and political activist 1872 - 1970

Fonte: 1920s, Sceptical Essays (1928), Ch. 13: Freedom in Society