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Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he will eat for the rest of his life.
-Chinese Proverb
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Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself.
-Chinese Proverb
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To teach well, we need not say all that we know, Successful teachers are effective in spite of the psychological theories they suffer under.
-Proverb
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Never offer to teach a fish to swim.
-Proverb
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In teaching others we teach ourselves.
-Proverb
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He who does not research has nothing to teach.
-Proverb
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Whatever you teach, be brief; what is quickly said the mind readily receives and faithfully retains, while everything superfluous runs over as from a full container. Who knows much says least.
-Proverb
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He who undertakes to be his own teacher has a fool for a pupil.
-Proverb
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A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.
-Henry Adams
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The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-distrust. He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him. He will have no disciple.
-Amos Bronson Alcott
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To know how to suggest is the great art of teaching. To attain it we must be able to guess what will interest; we must learn to read the childish soul as we might a piece of music. Then, by simply changing the key, we keep up the attraction and vary the song.
-Henri Frederic Amiel
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The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.
-Aristotle
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My object will be, if possible, to form Christian men, for Christian boys I can scarcely hope to make.
-Thomas Arnold
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No other job in the world could possibly dispossess one so completely as this job of teaching. You could stand all day in a laundry, for instance, still in possession of your mind. But this teaching utterly obliterates you. It cuts right into your being: essentially, it takes over your spirit. It drags it out from where it would hide.
-Sylvia Ashton-Warner, Spinster
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A professor is one who talks in someone else's sleep.
-W. H. Auden
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You can't teach a hunter it's wrong to kill.
-Hari Dass Baba
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Learning is finding out what we already know. Doing is demonstrating that you know it. Teaching is reminding others that they know just as well as you. You are all learners, doers and teachers.
-Richard Bach, Illusions: Reflections of a Reluctant Messiah
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You teach best what you most need to learn.
-Richard Bach
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A schoolmaster should have an atmosphere of awe, and walk wonderingly, as if he was amazed at being himself.
-Walter Bagehot
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When will the public cease to insult the teacher's calling with empty flattery? When will men who would never for a moment encourage their own sons to enter the work of the public schools cease to tell us that education is the greatest and noblest of all human callings?
-William C. Bagley, Craftmanship in Teaching
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I believe that every human soul is teaching something to someone nearly every minute here in mortality.
-M. Russell Ballard
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I am quite sure that in the hereafter she will take me by the hand and lead me to my proper seat.
-Bernard Baruch, On one of his early teachers, August 29, 1955
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Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.
-Jacques Barzun
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I am sure it is one's duty as a teacher to try to show boys that no opinions, no tastes, no emotions are worth much unless they are one's own. I suffered acutely as a boy from the lack of being shown this.
-A. C. Benson, The Upton Letters
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Unless we do his teachings, we do not demonstrate faith in him.
-Ezra Taft Benson
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The schoolmaster is abroad! And I trust to him armed with his primer against the soldier in full military array.
-Jeremy Bentham
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Life is amazing: and the teacher had better prepare himself to be a medium for that amazement.
-Edward Blishen
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There is no real teacher who in practice does not believe in the existence of the soul, or in a magic that acts on it through speech.
-Allan Bloom
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The world of knowledge takes a crazy turn when teachers themselves are taught to learn.
-Bertolt Brecht
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Housework is a breeze. Cooking is a pleasant diversion. Putting up a retaining wall is a lark. But teaching is like climbing a mountain.
-Fawn M. Brodie
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The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself.
-Edward George Bulwer-Lytton
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Teaching that begins with questions is both a moral and a pedagogical choice. A teacher teaches with questions because she or he believes that it is a better way to teach, and a better way to be a teacher. Yet to succeed at this, the questions must be real questions: questions that puzzle, confuse, and interest.
http://www.ed.uiuc.edu/EPS/PES-yearbook/97_docs/burbules.html
-Nicholas C. Burbles, essay: Aporia: Webs, Passages, Getting Lost, and Learning to Go On
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Arrogance, pedantry, and dogmatism... the occupational diseases of those who spend their lives directing the intellects of the young.
-Henry S. Canby
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A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-Thomas Carruthers
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Benevolence alone will not make a teacher, nor will learning alone do it. The gift of teaching is a peculiar talent, and implies a need and a craving in the teacher himself.
-John Jay Chapman, Memories and Milestones
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First he wrought, and afterward he taught.
-Chaucer
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When you wish to instruct, be brief; that men's minds take in quickly what you say, learn its lesson, and retain it faithfully. Every word that is unnecessary only pours over the side of a brimming mind.
-Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Mentor and coach others whenever you can. Your teaching will deepen your own learning.
-Lee J. Colan, 107 Ways to Stick to It
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If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed; if in terms of ten years, plant trees; if in terms of 100 years, teach the people.
-Confucius
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Once more I would adopt the graver style -- a teacher should be sparing of his smile.
-William Cowper
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A wisely chosen illustration is almost essential to fasten the truth upon the ordinary mind, and no teacher can afford to neglect this part of his preparation.
-Howard Crosby
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In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.
-Dalai Lama
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Who dares to teach must never cease to learn.
-John Cotton Dana
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There is no human reason why a child should not admire and emulate his teacher's ability to do sums, rather than the village bum's ability to whittle sticks and smoke cigarettes. The reason why the child does not is plain enough -- the bum has put himself on an equality with him and the teacher has not.
-Floyd Dell
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The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.
-Mark Van Doren
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Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.
-Will Durant
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The real difficulty, the difficulty which has baffled the sages of all times, is rather this: how can we make our teaching so potent in the motional life of man, that its influence should withstand the pressure of the elemental psychic forces in the individual?
-Albert Einstein
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It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.
-Albert Einstein
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The man who can make hard things easy is the educator.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Knowledge exists to be imparted.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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We love the precepts for the teacher's sake.
-George Farquhar
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If you're teaching a class, you can think about the elementary things that you know very well. These things are kind of fun and delightful. It doesn't do any harm to think them over again. Is there a better way to present them? The elementary things are easy to think about; if you can't think of a new thought, no harm done; what you thought about it before is good enough for the class. If you do think of something new, you're rather pleased that you have a new way of looking at it.
The questions of the students are often the source of new research. They often ask profound questions that I've thought about at times and then given up on, so to speak, for a while. It wouldn't do me any harm to think about them again and see if I can go any further now. The students may not be able to see the thing I want to answer, or the subtleties I want to think about, but they remind me of a problem by asking questions in the neighborhood of that problem. It's not so easy to remind yourself of these things.
-Richard Feynman, The Dignified Professor in Surely You're Joking Mr. Feynman pg. 166
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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
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I am not a teacher, but an awakener.
-Robert Frost
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You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself.
-Galileo Galilei
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Those who know how to think need no teachers.
-Mahatma Gandhi
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I am not willing that this discussion should close without mention of the value of a true teacher. Give me a log hut, with only a simple bench, Mark Hopkins on one end and I on the other, and you may have all the buildings, apparatus and libraries without him.
-James Garfield, Address to Williams College alumni, NY, 1871
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The teacher gives not of his wisdom, but rather of his faith and lovingness.
-Kahlil Gibran
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Those who go to college and never get out are called professors.
-George Givot
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Well had the boding tremblers learned to trace the day's disasters in his morning face.
-Oliver Goldsmith
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At the core of who we are is the roots of those that have influenced our lives the most and the impact of what they have exposed us to is always there and when the foundation is laid with love and commitment, our lives at some point will reflect that of which we have been taught.
-Aja Graydon
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Good teaching must be slow enough so that it is not confusing, and fast enough so that it is not boring.
-Sydney J. Harris
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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.
-Hippocrates
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If you are happy with the way things are in the schools, and your children are happy and fulfilled, fine. I'm glad you are happy, and that the schools are doing what you want them to for you. But there are lots of people out there who are very unhappy, and it's to those people that I'm offering this other choice, and saying that they don't have to just accept what's imposed on them. It takes a lot of determination, and some hard work, but you can teach your own!
-John Holt
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When you introduce a moral lesson, let it be brief.
-Horace
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The teacher is one who makes two ideas grow where only one grew before.
-Elbert Hubbard
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The role of the teacher remains the highest calling of a free people. To the teacher, America entrusts her most precious resource, her children; and asks that they be prepared...to face the rigors of individual participation in a democratic society.
-Shirley Hufstedler
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Morality sticks faster when presented in brief sayings than when presented in long discourse.
-Immermann
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To believe in a child is to believe in the future. Through their aspirations they will save the world. With their combined knowledge the turbulent seas of hate and injustice will be calmed. They will champion the causes of life's underdogs, forging a society without class discrimination. They will supply humanity with music and beauty as it has never known. They will endure. Towards these ends I pledge my life's work. I will supply the children with tools and knowledge to overcome the obstacles. I will pass on the wisdom of my years and temper it with patience. I shall impact in each child the desire to fulfill his or her dream. I shall teach.
-Henry James
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To teach is to learn twice.
-Joseph Joubert
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To teach a man how he may learn to grow independently, and for himself, is perhaps the greatest service that one man can do another.
-Benjamin Jowett
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We think of our efficient teachers with a sense of recognition, but those who touched our humanity we remember with gratitude. Learning is the essential mineral, but warmth is the life-element for the child's soul, no less than for the growing plant.
-Carl Gustav Jung, The Gifted Child - Collected Works, Vol 17
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An understanding heart is everything in a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feeling. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.
-Carl Gustav Jung
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Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.
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To teach successfully we must tell all we know, but only what is adaptable to the student.
-Fr餩ric-C鳡r La Harpe
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Why are we never quite at ease in the presence of a schoolmaster? Because we are conscious that he is not quite at his ease in ours. He is awkward, and out of place in the society of his equals. He comes like Gulliver from among his little people, and he cannot fit the stature of his understanding to yours.
-Charles Lamb
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A schoolteacher or professor cannot educate individuals, he educates only species.
-G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenberg
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Most subjects at universities are taught for no other purpose than that they may be re-taught when the students become teachers.
-G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenberg
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It is easier for a tutor to command than to teach.
-John Locke
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Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books.
-Sir John Lubbock
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Teaching is of more importance than urging.
-Martin Luther
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A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on a cold iron.
-Horace Mann
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Teaching isn't one-tenth as effective as training.
-Horace Mann
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What office is there which involves more responsibility, which requires more qualifications, and which ought, therefore, to be more honorable, than that of teaching?
-Harriet Martineau
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Your Master Teacher knows all you need to learn, the perfect timing for your learning it, and the ideal way of teaching it to you. You don't create a Master Teacher -- that's already been done. You discover your Master Teacher.
-Peter McWilliams
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The truth is that the average schoolmaster, on all the lower levels, is and always must be essentially and next door to an idiot, for how can one imagine an intelligent man engaging in so puerile an avocation?
-H. L. Mencken
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In the education of children there is nothing like alluring the interest and affection, otherwise you only make so many asses laden with books.
-Michel de Montaigne
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The teacher must derive not only the capacity, but the desire, to observe natural phenomena. In our system, she must become a passive, much more than an active, influence, and her passivity shall be composed of anxious scientific curiosity and of absolute respect for the phenomenon which she wishes to observe. The teacher must understand and feel her position of observer: the activity must lie in the phenomenon.
-Maria Montessori
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No bubble is so iridescent or floats longer than that blown by the successful teacher.
-William Osler, Address, Glasgow, October 4, 1911
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There is no accountability in the public school system - except for coaches. You know what happens to a losing coach. You fire him. A losing teacher can go on losing for 30 years and then go to glory.
-H. Ross Perot
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No one ever teaches well who wants to teach, or governs well who wants to govern.
-Plato
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Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each.
-Plato
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The dream begins with a teacher who believes in you, who tugs and pushes and leads you to the next plateau, sometimes poking you with a sharp stick called truth.
-Dan Rather
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The true aim of everyone who aspires to be a teacher should be, not to impart his own opinions, but to kindle minds.
-Frederick William Robertson
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I believe that the testing of the student's achievements in order to see if he meets some criterion held by the teacher, is directly contrary to the implications of therapy for significant learning.
-Carl R. Rogers
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An educator should think of a child as a garderner thinks of a plant, as something to be made to grow by having the right soil and the right kind amount of water. If your roses fail to bloom, it does not occur to you to whip them, but you should try to find out what has been amiss in your treatment of them... The important thing is what the children do, and not what they do not do. And what they do, if it is to have value, must be a spontaneous expression of their own vital energy.
-Bertrand Russell, Life Without Fear : New Hopes for a Changing World
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We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled, but as candles to be lit.
-Robert H. Shaffer
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What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.
-George Bernard Shaw
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He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.
-George Bernard Shaw
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When teaching, light a fire, don't fill a bucket.
-Dan Snow
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I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-Socrates
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Lessons of wisdom have the most power over us when they capture the heart through the groundwork of a story, which engages the passions.
-Laurence Sterne
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Children should be led into the right paths, not by severity, but by persuasion.
-Terence
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To be good is noble, but to teach others how to be good is nobler and less trouble.
-Mark Twain
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We will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught.
-Source Unknown
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A gifted teacher is as rare as a gifted doctor, and makes far less money.
-Source Unknown
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The secret of teaching is to appear to have known all your life what you just learned this morning.
-Source Unknown
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The highest function of the teacher consists not so much in imparting knowledge as in stimulating the pupil in its love and pursuit.
-Source Unknown
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He who dares to teach must never cease to learn.
-Source Unknown
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The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
-William Arthur Ward
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Teaching is the greatest act of optimism.
-Colleen Wilcox
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Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.
-Oscar Wilde
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The first duty of a lecturer is to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up between the pages of your notebooks and keep on the mantelpiece forever.
-Virginia Woolf
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Books about Teaching
