A teacher
affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence
stops.
-- Henry Brooks Adams
-To know
how to suggest is the great art of teaching.
-- Henri Frederic Amiel
One
of the biggest things that needs to change is the educational
system. Universities are still teaching a system to
students that destroys the biosphere.
-- Ray
C. Anderson
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My
country is a country of teachers. It is therefore a
country of peace. We discuss our successes and failures
in complete freedom. Because our country is a country
of teachers, we closed the army camps, and our children
go about with books under their arms, not with rifles
on their shoulders. We believe in dialogue, in agreement,
in reaching a consensus.
-- Oscar
Arias Sanchez
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Those
that know, do. Those that understand, teach.
--
Aristotle
Education
is an ornament in prosperity and refuge in adversity.
-- Aristotle
Those
who educate children well are more to be honored than
parents, for these only gave life, those the art of
living well.
-- Aristotle
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A schoolmaster
should have an atmosphere of awe, and walk wonderingly,
as if he was amazed at being himself.
-- Newton D. Baker
I believe
that every human soul is teaching something to someone nearly
every minute here in mortality.
- M. Russell Ballard
In teaching
you cannot see the fruit of a day's work. It is invisible
and remains so, maybe for twenty years.
-- Jacques Barzun
Teaching
is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.
-- Jacques Barzun
A good
teacher is a master of simplification and an enemy of simplism.
-- Louis A. Berman
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.
-- Eugene P. Bertin
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'If you want to learn a thing, read that. If you want
to know a thing, write that; if you want to master
a thing, teach that.'
-- Yogi
Bhajan
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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 Bulwer-Lytton
A teacher
is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers
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If
a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder,
he needs the companionship of at least one adult who
can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement
and mystery of the world we live in.
-- Rachel
Carson
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What
nobler employment, or more valuable to the state, than that
of the man who instructs the rising generation.
-- Cicero
Don't
try to fix the students, fix ourselves first. The good teacher
makes the poor student good and the good student superior.
When our students fail, we, as teachers, too, have failed.
-- Marva Collins
Acquire
new knowledge whilst thinking over the old, and you may
become a teacher of others.
- Confucius
The
task of the excellent teacher is to stimulate "apparently
ordinary" people to unusual effort. The tough problem is
not in identifying winners: it is in making winners out
of ordinary people.
-- K. Patricia Cross
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“Any
genuine teaching will result, if successful, in someone’s
knowing how to bring about a better condition of things
than existed earlier.”
-- John
Dewey
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The
greatest good you can do for another is not just share your
riches, but reveal to them their own.
-- Benjamin Disraeli
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"Social entrepreneurs are not content just to give
a fish or teach how to fish. They will not rest until
they have revolutionized the fishing industry."
-- Bill
Drayton
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Teaching is the only major occupation of man for which
we have not yet developed tools that make an average
person capable of competence and performance. In teaching
we rely on the "naturals," the ones who somehow know
how to teach.
-- Peter
F. Drucker
We
now accept the fact that learning is a lifelong process
of keeping abreast of change. And the most pressing
task is to teach people how to learn.
--
Peter
F. Drucker
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Education
is the transmission of civilization.
-- Will Durant
If
you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards
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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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Our schoolbooks glorify war and conceal its horrors.
They indoctrinate children with hatred. I would
teach peace rather than war, love rather than hate."
-- Albert
Einstein
“Teaching
should be such that what is offered is perceived
as a valuable gift and not as a hard duty.”
-- Albert
Einstein
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"We
must inoculate our children against militarism, by educating
them in the spirit of pacifism... Our schoolbooks glorify
war and conceal its horrors. They indoctrinate children
with hatred. I would teach peace rather than war, love
rather than hate."
-- Albert
Einstein
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The
great teacher is not the man who supplies the most
facts, but the one in whose presence we become different
people.
-- Ralph
Waldo Emerson
The
secret of education is respecting the pupils.
-- Ralph
Waldo Emerson
“Be
an opener of doors for such as come after thee.”
-- Ralph
Waldo Emerson
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Be
careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than
rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than
the wealth of the ignorant.
-- Epictetus
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I
cannot be a teacher without exposing who I am.
-- Paulo
Freire
"The
teacher is no longer merely the-one-who-teaches,
but one who is him/herself taught in dialogue with
the students, who in turn while being taught also
teach. They become jointly responsible for a process
in which all grow."
-- Paulo
Freire
When
we live our lives with the authenticity demanded
by the practice of teaching that is also learning
and learning that is also teaching, we are participating
in a total experience…. In this experience the beautiful,
the decent, and the serious form a circle with hands
joined."
-- Paulo
Freire
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"Although
the teachers or the students are not the same, the person
in charge of education is being formed or re-formed as
he/she teaches, and the person who is being taught forms
him/herself in the process. …There is, in fact, no teaching
without learning."
-- Paulo
Freire
"To
teach is part of the very fabric of learning."
-- Paulo
Freire
"…
there is no valid teaching from which there does not emerge
something learned and through which the learner does not
become capable of recreating and remaking what has been
taught."
-- Paulo
Freire
You
cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find
it within himself.
-- Galielo Galilei
A
teacher is a compass that activates the magnets of curiosity,
knowledge, and wisdom in the pupils.
-- Eve Garrison
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.
-- Kahlil Gibran
Teachers
are expected to reach unattainable goals with inadequate
tools. The miracle is that at times they accomplish this
impossible task.
-- Haim G. Ginott
Good
teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
--Gail Godwin
Seldom
was any knowledge given to keep, but to impart; the grace
of this rich jewel is lost in concealment.
-- Bishop Hall
The
object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along
without his teacher.
-- Elbert Hubbard
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Education
and the process of educating is a total integral,
contextual situation which includes students, teachers,
parents, administration and environment.
-- Jean
Huston
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'It must be remembered that the purpose of education
is not to fill the minds of students with facts...
it is to teach them to think, if that is possible,
and always to think for themselves.'
-- Robert
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He
that teaches us anything which we knew not before is undoubtedly
to be reverenced as a master.
-- Samuel Johnson
To
teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert
One
looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers,
but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings.
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 Jung
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A
child miseducated is a child lost.
-- John
F. Kennedy
Modern
cynics and skeptics... see no harm in paying those
to whom they entrust the minds of their children a
smaller wage than is paid to those to whom they entrust
the care of their plumbing.
-- John
F. Kennedy
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“I
write books to change the world. Perhaps I can only
change one little piece of that world. But if I can
empower teachers and good citizens to give these children,
who are the poorest of the poor, the same opportunity
we give our own kids, then I'll feel my life has been
worth it.”
-- Jonathan
Kozol
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Poverty
is a weapon of mass destruction. Joblessness is a
weapon of mass destruction, homelessness, a weapon
of mass destruction... racism, a weapon of mass destruction,
fear, a weapon of mass destruction. We must disarm
these weapons and renew our commitment to quality
public schools and dedicated teachers and good housing
and quality health care and decent jobs and stronger
neighborhoods.
-- Dennis
Kucinich
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Experience
is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting
the lesson.
- Vernon Law
The
important thing is not so much that every child should be
taught, as that every child should be given the wish to
learn.
-- John Lubbock
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One
of the marks of a great teacher lies not only in an
ability to impart knowledge but also in knowing when
to encourage a student to go off on his own.
-- Yo-Yo
Ma
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A teacher
who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with
a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.
-- Horace Mann
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None
of us got where we are solely by pulling ourselves up
by our bootstraps. We got here because somebody - a
parent, a teacher, an Ivy League crony or a few nuns
- bent down and helped us pick up our boots.
-- Thurgood
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"I
touch the future. I teach."
- Christa McAuliffe.
What
the teacher is, is more important than what he teaches.
-- Karl Menninger
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“The
greatest sign of success for a teacher... is to be
able to say, "The children are now working as if I
did not exist."”
– Maria
Montessori
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The
good teacher discovers the natural gifts of his pupils and
liberates them.
-- Stephen Neil
A master
can tell you what he expects of you. A teacher, though,
awakens your own expectations.
-- Patricia Neal
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
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 Rogers
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“More
important than the curriculum is the question of
the methods of teaching and the spirit in which
the teaching is given”
-- Bertrand
Russell
“No
man can be a good teacher unless he has feelings
of warm affection toward his pupils and a genuine
desire to impart to them what he believes to be
of value.”
-- Bertrand
Russell
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Imparting
education not only enlightens the receiver, but also
broadens the giver - the teachers, the parents, the
friends.
-- Amartya
Sen
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"Teaching
kids to count is fine, but teaching them what counts is
best."
- Bob Talbert
When
you teach your son, you teach your son's son.
-- The Talmud
It’s
what you learn after you know it all that counts.
-- Harry S. Truman
The
art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.
-- Mark Van Doren
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The
teacher that I was for decades, and that I still am
in a certain way, wondered what was meant by the word
education. I was truly dumbfounded at the very thought
of dealing with such an essential and extensive subject.
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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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The
most important part of teaching is to teach what
it is to know.
-- Simone
Weil
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I saw as a teacher how, if you take that spark of
learning that those children have, and you ignite
it, you can take a child from any background to
a lifetime of creativity and accomplishment.
-- Paul
Wellstone
If
a teacher does not involve himself, his values,
his commitments, in the course of discussion, why
should the students?
-- Paul
Wellstone
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“Teaching
is the greatest act of optimism”
-- Colleen Wilcox
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Mama
was my greatest teacher, a teacher of compassion,
love and fearlessness. If love is sweet as a flower,
then my mother is that sweet flower of love.
-- Stevie
Wonder
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One
good teacher in a lifetime may sometimes change a delinquent
into a solid citizen.
-- Philip Wylie
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