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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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Books about Teaching
