Mentoring Quotes - Page 3

The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.

William Arthur Ward

Mentors change lives, but students change mentors’ lives more.

Learn from the ocean; when it rises, it carries more than itself along with it.

Matshona Dhliwayo

The most beautiful people are those who bring out the beauty in others.

Matshona Dhliwayo

We must desire to see people rising in life, rather than looking for ways to contribute to their fall.

Bamigboye Olurotimi

It became by mission to work with young people to help show them the way, not save them! But help them understand that there are choices that can be made today that will make the difference for their rest of their lives.

Jose A. Aviles Ed. D.

Reject anything advice, which does not lead to your personal progress.

Lailah Gifty Akita

We must never forget our teachers, our lecturers and our mentors. In their individual capacities have contributed to our academic, professional and personal development.

Lailah Gifty Akita

We must never forget our teachers and our lecturers. In their individual capacities have contributed to our academic, professional and personal development.

Lailah Gifty Akita

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.

Charles Dickens

Mentoring is an archetypal activity that has timeless elements which can connect us to the universal ground where nature renews itself and culture becomes reimagined. Youth and elder meet where the pressure of the future meets the presence of the past. Old and young are opposites that secretly identify with each other for neither fits well into the mainstream of life.

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.

Charles Dickens

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.

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.

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

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

Plutarch

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

Only the foolish would think that wisdom is something to keep locked in a drawer. Only the fearful would feel empowerment is something best kept to oneself, or the few, and not shared with all.

Rasheed Ogunlaru

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

I am not a teacher, but an awakener.