M. H. Abrams
M. H. Abrams

I think the hardest thing to teach a student is that what he or she puts down on paper is changeable.

Mortimer Adler
Mortimer Adler

A lecture has been well described as the process whereby the notes of the teacher become the notes of the student without passing through the mind of either.

Mortimer Adler
Mortimer Adler

It is obvious that teaching is a very special art, sharing with only two other arts, agriculture and medicine, an exceptionally important characteristic A doctor may do many things for his patient, but in the final analysis, it is the patient himself who must get well, grow in health. The farmer does many things for his plants or animals, but in the final analysis, it is they that must grow in

size and excellence. Similarly, although the teacher may help his student in many ways, it is the student himself who must do the learning. Knowledge must grow in his mind if learning is to take place.

Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed
Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed

As a student in England he had befriended Jawaharlal Nehru whose progressive ideas had influenced him, and who became his close friend and mentor.

George Biddell Airy
George Biddell Airy

The elucidation of the theory of centripetal and disturbing forces is necessarily less complete. Still… a general conception of the nature of the action of those forces… sufficient to preserve the student from the gross errors… may be obtained from explanations like those here offered. The methods of ascertaining the weight of the Earth and other bodies are… more difficult of explanation;

yet… something may be done even in these.

George Biddell Airy
George Biddell Airy

In the application of the ordinary principles of geometry and trigonometry to such Astronomical measures… it may sometimes be expedient to resolve the process into several successive steps, and these steps may perhaps require different kinds of treatment. But… all are simple and within ordinary comprehension, and the only complexity arises from the circumstance that the student may find it

necessary to have a clear view of several such steps at once…

Josef Albers
Josef Albers

In 1923, when I had been a student at the 'Bauhaus' in Weimar…. Gropius [the director of Bauhaus] asked me to teach the basic course 'Werklehhre'. He wanted me to introduce newcomers to the principles of handicrafts. He knew that I came from that background and had appropriate practice and knowledge.

Amritanandamayi
Amritanandamayi

The light of the guru’s grace helps us to see and remove the obstacles in our path. An ashram is not a mere cluster of inanimate buildings, temples and trees; rather it is the very embodiment of the sadguru’s grace. It is a vital, dynamic and living institution that stimulates the aspiration of the sincere student to attain the state of oneness.

Carl David Anderson
Carl David Anderson

The ideal student would be one who was not working for grades but was working because he was interested in the work and not trying to compete with fellow students.

ʿAlī al-Hādī an-Naqī
ʿAlī al-Hādī an-Naqī

Both professor and student share in the pursuit of excellence and perfection.