Definition of Educator

Educator

One who educates; a teacher.

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The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.
C. S. Lewis

The educator must believe in the potential power of his pupil, and he must employ all his art in seeking to bring his pupil to experience this power.
Alfred Adler

To aid life, leaving it free, however, that is the basic task of the educator.
Maria Montessori

The task of the educator lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility and evil with activity.
Maria Montessori

The educator must above all understand how to wait; to reckon all effects in the light of the future, not of the present.
Ellen Key

The people must know before they can act, and there is no educator to compare with the press.
Ida B. Wells

The educator and the public need to have an opportunity to discuss why certain art is important.
David Elliott

I cannot join the space program and restart my life as an astronaut, but this opportunity to connect my abilities as an educator with my interests in history and space is a unique opportunity to fulfill my early fantasies.
Christa McAuliffe

I see myself as an educator.
Anita Hill

However, as a parent, as a grandparent, as a former educator, I know that these practices alone when we are dealing with young children are insufficient. We will never control this rising epidemic without greater accountability from the food industry.
Bob Filner

Having been an educator for so many years I know that all a good teacher can do is set a context, raise questions or enter into a kind of a dialogic relationship with their students.
Godfrey Reggio

The artist is an educator of artists of the future who are able to understand and in the process of understanding perform unexpected - the best - evolutions.
Saul Steinberg

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Educator Translations

educator in German is Erzieher
educator in Spanish is educador

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