#mentoring

"The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled."

"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."

"I am not a teacher, but an awakener."

"He was always so zealous and honorable in fulfilling his compact with me, that he made me zealous and honorable in fulfilling mine with him. If he had shown indifference as a master, I have no doubt I should have returned the compliment as a pupil. He gave me no such excuse, and each of us did the other justice."

"In learning you will teach, and in teaching you will learn."

"Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn."

"I never heard that it had been anybody’s business to find out what his natural bent was, or where his failings lay, or to adapt any kind of knowledge to him. He had been adapted to the verses and had learnt the art of making them to such perfection. I did doubt whether Richard would not have profited by some one studying him a little, instead of his studying them quite so much."

"Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon."

"Children must be taught how to think, not what to think."

"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."