See farther by standing on "the shoulders of giants"   Quotes   Teaching, Education   Wisdom Authors Good teacher teach. Great teachers inspire! VadiK Inventor Author Founder If you stop learning, you stop creating history and become history.   "A teacher is anyone who helps you notice new inspiring and promising directions you were not able to notice before and turns you to a relentless self-learner." ~ Vadim Kotelnikov   I don't teach, I inspire. I inspire –  SuperCreativity, HIGHERsight, Innovation 360 – with my texts, visuals, courses, speeches, as a trainer, and by example VadiK Inventor Author Founder When I'm teaching by example, I'm not selling my student my past, I'm selling them their future VadiK Inventor Author Founder Education breeds confidence. Confidence breeds hope. Hope breeds peace. Confucius I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think. Socrates Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel. Socrates Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all. Aristotle Months of revolution sometimes educate citizens more quickly and completely than decades of political stagnation. Lenin Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted. Lenin Education is a weapon whose effects depend on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed. Joseph Stalin Education is not the learning of facts, but the training of the mind to think. Albert Einstein It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge. Albert Einstein   “The greatest virtue of man is perhaps curiosity... The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.” ~ Anatole France *** "There is no man living that can not do more than he thinks he can." ~ Henry Ford   I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well. Alexander the Great Clever person likes to learn, and the fool – to teach. Russian proverb Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose. Bill Gates   "American education has all the downsides of standardization, none of the upsides. Standardized and rigid curriculum treats teachers as untrustworthy slackers who need to be disciplined by measuring their output through standard lessons and evaluations. A system that promises to put the nation’s kids through the same benchmarks on the same timetable is bad for everyone." ~ Cory Doctorow   Dancing in all its forms cannot be excluded from the curriculum of all noble education. Friedrich Nietzsche