Terence Winslow, LSSBB > Terence's Quotes

“Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn.”
― Benjamin Franklin

“Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.”
― Margaret Mead

“I am not a teacher, but an awakener.”
― Robert Frost

“Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each.”
― Plato

“In learning you will teach, and in teaching you will learn.”
― Phil Collins

“No one learns as much about a subject as one who is forced to teach it.”
― Peter Drucker

“Remember that mentor leadership is all about serving. Jesus said, “For even the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve others and to give his life as a ransom for many” (Mark 10:45).”
― Tony Dungy, The Mentor Leader: Secrets to Building People and Teams That Win Consistently

“What I've found about it is that there are some folks you can talk to until you're blue in the face--they're never going to get it and they're never going to change. But every once in a while, you'll run into someone who is eager to listen, eager to learn, and willing to try new things. Those are the people we need to reach. We have a responsibility as parents, older people, teachers, people in the neighborhood to recognize that.”
― Tyler Perry, Don't Make a Black Woman Take Off Her Earrings: Madea's Uninhibited Commentaries on Love and Life

“Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.”
― E.M. Forster

“The best teacher is not the one who knows most but the one who is most capable of reducing knowledge to that simple compound of the obvious and wonderful.”
― H.L. Mencken

“True education does not consist merely in the acquiring of a few facts of science, history, literature, or art, but in the development of character.”
― David O. McKay

“The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.”
― William Arthur Ward

“The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.”
― Plutarch

“The mediocre leader tells. The good leader explains. The superior leader demonstrates. The great leader inspires.”
― Gary F. Patton