The mind is like a rubber band that encompasses the information that it acquires from the world. Hence, the job of the teacher is to stretch the students’ mind so that they can accommodate ever larger amounts of data.

The students’ mind contains the seeds of understanding. The teacher is merely a gardener who prepares the soil and provides it with nourishment, so that the seeds can grow and produce fruit.

The teacher is a lamplighter who illuminates the students’ mind so that the truth within will shine forth.

The mind is like a copy machine that reproduces images of the data it has scanned from the external world.

The teacher is a tour guide who leads the students into new and unfamiliar terrain.

The teacher is an archaeologist who helps the students discover the treasures buried into the depths of their own minds.

The mind is like a window that provides access to the outside world. Ignorance, prejudice, and dogmatism are like a haze or obstacles that the teacher must remove in order for the light of truth to shine through the window of intellect.

The mind is like a computer. Its capabilities are only as good as the data it receives.

The mind is like a computer. Without some built-in internal content such as logic circuits and an operating system, it is incapable of processing external data.