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Single Idea 14834

[filed under theme 25. Social Practice / E. Policies / 5. Education / c. Teaching ]

Full Idea

A teacher is incapable of doing anything of his own for his own good. He always thinks of the good of his pupils, and all new knowledge gladdens him only to the extent that he can teach it. He is a thoroughfare for learning, and has lost seriousness.

Gist of Idea

Teachers only gather knowledge for their pupils, and can't be serious about themselves

Source

Friedrich Nietzsche (Human, All Too Human [1878], 200)

Book Ref

Nietzsche,Friedrich: 'Human, All Too Human', ed/tr. Faber,Marion [Penguin 1994], p.123

A Reaction

Oh dear. I look in the mirror. Do I only delight in finding all these quotations so that I can stick them in the database and pass them on to someone else? Are they actually impingeing on my life? Could I meet an idea that made me abandon this project?

The 19 ideas with the same theme [virtues and principles of good teaching]:

8151 Let your teacher be a god to you [Anon (Upan)]
1565 We learn language, and we don't know who teaches us it [Anon (Diss)]
4331 Education is channelling a child's feelings into the right course before it understands why [Plato]
250 The best way to educate the young is not to rebuke them, but to set a good example [Plato]
222 Only a great person can understand the essence of things, and an even greater person can teach it [Plato]
2153 Compulsory intellectual work never remains in the mind [Plato]
1638 Didactic education is hard work and achieves little [Plato]
5150 Intellectual virtue arises from instruction (and takes time), whereas moral virtue result from habit [Aristotle]
11241 Wise men aren't instructed; they instruct [Aristotle]
2842 Men learn partly by habit, and partly by listening [Aristotle]
13290 One joy of learning is making teaching possible [Seneca]
13322 Both teachers and pupils should aim at one thing - the improvement of the pupil [Seneca]
17226 The best use of talent is to teach other people to live rationally [Spinoza]
19957 Teaching is the best practice of the general virtue that leads us to love everyone [Montesquieu]
19580 If the pupil really yearns for the truth, they only need a hint [Novalis]
2889 One repays a teacher badly if one remains only a pupil [Nietzsche]
14834 Teachers only gather knowledge for their pupils, and can't be serious about themselves [Nietzsche]
2908 There is a need for educators who are themselves educated [Nietzsche]
3973 Without a teacher, the concept of 'getting things right or wrong' is meaningless [Davidson]