He graduated with a Master’s Degree in Arts from Madras University. In partial fulfillment for his M.A. degree, Radhakrishnan wrote a thesis on the ethics of the Vedanta titled “The Ethics of the Vedanta and Its Metaphysical Presuppositions”, which was a reply to the charge that the Vedanta system had no room for ethics.
No one is more cherished in this world than someone who lightens the burden of another.
The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.
The greatest sign of a success for a teacher...is to be able to say, "The children are now working as if I did not exist."
A good teacher is like a candle - it consumes itself to light the way for others.
Teaching is the profession that teaches all the other professions.
A gifted teacher is as rare as a gifted doctor, and makes far less money.
A teacher's purpose is not to create students in his own image, but to develop students who can create their own image.
I swear... to hold my teacher in this art equal to my own parents; to make him partner in my livelihood; when he is in need of money to share mine with him; to consider his family as my own brothers and to teach them this art, if they want to learn it, without fee or indenture.
Teachers, I believe, are the most responsible and important members of society because their professional efforts affect the fate of the earth.
A teacher who can arouse a feeling for one single good action, for one single good poem, accomplishes more than he who fills our memory with rows and rows of natural objects, classified with name and form.
The best teachers teach from the heart, not from the book.
Education is not the filling of a pail but the lighting of a fire.
Leading a child to learning's treasures, gives a teacher untold pleasures
Teachers don't impact for a year, but for a lifetime.
The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition."
Good teachers are costly, but bad teachers cost more.
What the teacher is, is more important than what he teaches.
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
Teaching is leaving a vestige of one self in the development of another. And surely the student is a bank where you can deposit your most precious treasures.