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A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.Teachers and Teaching
Adams, Henry Brooks
1838-1918 American Historian
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.
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Alcott, Amos Bronson
1799-1888 American Educator Social Reformer
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.
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Amiel, Henri Frederic
1821-1881 Swiss Philosopher Poet Critic
The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.
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Aristotle
BC 384-322 Greek Philosopher
My object will be, if possible, to form Christian men, for Christian boys I can scarcely hope to make.
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Arnold, Thomas
1795-1842 British Educator Scholar
A professor is one who talks in someone else s sleep.
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Auden, W. H.
1907-1973 Anglo-American Poet
You can t teach a hunter it s wrong to kill.
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Baba, Hari Dass
You teach best what you most need to learn.
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Bach, Richard
1936 American Author
A schoolmaster should have an atmosphere of awe, and walk wonderingly, as if he was amazed at being himself.
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Bagehot, Walter
1826-1877 British Economist Critic
I believe that every human soul is teaching something to someone nearly every minute here in mortality.
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Ballard, M. Russell
1928 American Missionary Bishop
Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.
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Barzun, Jacques
1907 American Scholar
Unless we do his teachings, we do not demonstrate faith in him.
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Benson, Ezra Taft
1899-1994 American Government Official and Religious Leader
The schoolmaster is abroad! And I trust to him armed with his primer against the soldier in full military array.
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Bentham, Jeremy
1748-1832 British Philosopher Jurist Political Theorist
Life is amazing: and the teacher had better prepare himself to be a medium for that amazement.
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Blishen, Edward
1920 British Actor
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.
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Bloom, Allan
1930-1992 American Educator Author
The world of knowledge takes a crazy turn when teachers themselves are taught to learn.
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Brecht, Bertolt
1898-1956 German Dramatist Poet
Housework is a breeze. Cooking is a pleasant diversion. Putting up a retaining wall is a lark. But teaching is like climbing a mountain.
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Brodie, Fawn M.
1915-1981 American Biographer
The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself.
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Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.
1803-1873 British Novelist Poet
Arrogance, pedantry, and dogmatism... the occupational diseases of those who spend their lives directing the intellects of the young.
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Canby, Henry S.
1878-1961 American Author Editor
A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
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Carruthers, Thomas
First he wrought, and afterward he taught.
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Chaucer, Geoffrey
1340-1400 British Poet
A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher who is not teaching.
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Chesterton, Gilbert K.
1874-1936 British Author
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.
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Confucius
BC 551-479 Chinese Ethical Teacher Philosopher
Once more I would adopt the graver style -- a teacher should be sparing of his smile.
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Cowper, William
1731-1800 British Poet
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.
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Crosby, Howard
1872-1922 American Archaeologist Professor
In the practice of tolerance, one s enemy is the best teacher.
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Dalai Lama
1935 Tibet Religious Leader Resides In India
Who dares to teach must never cease to learn.
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Dana, John Cotton
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.
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Dell, Floyd
The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.
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Doren, Mark Van
1894-1972 American Poet Critic
Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.
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Durant, William J.
1885-1981 American Historian Essayist
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?
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Einstein, Albert
1879-1955 German-born American Physicist
It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.
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Einstein, Albert
1879-1955 German-born American Physicist
The man who can make hard things easy is the educator.
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Emerson, Ralph Waldo
1803-1882 American Poet Essayist
Knowledge exists to be imparted.
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Emerson, Ralph Waldo
1803-1882 American Poet Essayist
We love the precepts for the teacher s sake.
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Farquhar, George
c1677-1707 Irish Playwright
I am not a teacher, but an awakener.
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Frost, Robert
1875-1963 American Poet
You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself.
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Galilei, Galileo
1564-1642 Italian Astronomer Mathematician
Those who know how to think need no teachers.
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Gandhi, Mahatma
1869-1948 Indian Political Spiritual Leader
The teacher gives not of his wisdom, but rather of his faith and lovingness.
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Gibran, Kahlil
1883-1931 Lebanese Poet Novelist
Those who go to college and never get out are called professors.
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Givot, George
Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
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Godwin, Gail
Well had the boding tremblers learned to trace the day s disasters in his morning face.
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Goldsmith, Oliver
1728-1774 Anglo-Irish Author Poet Playwright
Good teaching must be slow enough so that it is not confusing, and fast enough so that it is not boring.
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Harris, Sidney J.
1917 American Journalist
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.
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Hippocrates
Ancient Greek Physician
When you introduce a moral lesson, let it be brief.
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Horace
BC 65-8 Italian Poet
The teacher is one who makes two ideas grow where only one grew before.
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Hubbard, Elbert
1859-1915 American Author Publisher
Morality sticks faster when presented in brief sayings than when presented in long discourse.
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Immermann
To teach is to learn twice.
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Joubert, Joseph
1754-1824 French Moralist
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.
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Jung, Carl
1875-1961 Swiss Psychiatrist
To teach successfully we must tell all we know, but only what is adaptable to the student.
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La Harpe
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.
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Lamb, Charles
1775-1834 British Essayist Critic
A schoolteacher or professor cannot educate individuals, he educates only species.
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Lichtenberg, Georg C.
1742-1799 German Physicist Satirist
Most subjects at universities are taught for no other purpose than that they may be re-taught when the students become teachers.
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Lichtenberg, Georg C.
1742-1799 German Physicist Satirist
It is easier for a tutor to command than to teach.
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Locke, John
1632-1704 British Philosopher
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.
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Lubbock, Sir John
1834-1913 British Statesman Banker Naturalist
Teaching is of more importance than urging.
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Luther, Martin
1483-1546 German Leader of the Protestant Reformation
A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on a cold iron.
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Mann, Horace
1796-1859 American Educator
Teaching isn t one-tenth as effective as training.
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Mann, Horace
1796-1859 American Educator
What office is there which involves more responsibility, which requires more qualifications, and which ought, therefore, to be more honorable, than that of teaching?
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Martineau, Harriet
1802-1876 British Writer Social Critic
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.
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Mcwilliams, Peter
American Author of Life 101
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?
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Mencken, H. L.
1880-1956 American Editor Author Critic Humorist
In the education of children there is nothing like alluring the interest and affection, otherwise you only make so many asses laden with books.
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Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De
1533-1592 French Philosopher Essayist
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.
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Montessori, Maria
1870-1952 Italian Educator
No one ever teaches well who wants to teach, or governs well who wants to govern.
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Plato
BC 427-347 Greek Philosopher
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.
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Plato
BC 427-347 Greek Philosopher
To teach well, we need not say all that we know, Successful teachers are effective in spite of the psychological theories they suffer under.
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Proverb
Never offer to teach a fish to swim.
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Proverb
In teaching others we teach ourselves.
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Proverb
He who does not research has nothing to teach.
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Proverb
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.
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Proverb
He who undertakes to be his own teacher has a fool for a pupil.
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Proverb, German
Sayings of German Origin
The true aim of everyone who aspires to be a teacher should be, not to impart his own opinions, but to kindle minds.
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Robertson, Frederick W.
We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled, but as candles to be lit.
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Shaffer, Robert H.
What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.
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Shaw, George Bernard
1856-1950 Irish-born British Dramatist
He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.
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Shaw, George Bernard
1856-1950 Irish-born British Dramatist
When teaching, light a fire, don t fill a bucket.
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Snow, Dan
I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
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Socrates
BC 469-399 Greek Philosopher of Athens
Lessons of wisdom have the most power over us when they capture the heart through the groundwork of a story, which engages the passions.
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Sterne, Laurence
1713-1768 British Author
Children should be led into the right paths, not by severity, but by persuasion.
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Terence
BC 185-18159 Roman Writer of Comedies
To be good is noble, but to teach others how to be good is nobler and less trouble.
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Twain, Mark
1835-1910 American Humorist Writer
We will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught.
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Unknown, Source
A gifted teacher is as rare as a gifted doctor, and makes far less money.
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Unknown, Source
The secret of teaching is to appear to have known all your life what you just learned this morning.
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Unknown, Source
The highest function of the teacher consists not so much in imparting knowledge as in stimulating the pupil in its love and pursuit.
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Unknown, Source
He who dares to teach must never cease to learn.
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Unknown, Source
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
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Ward, William A.
1921
Teaching is the greatest act of optimism.
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Wilcox, Colleen
Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.
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Wilde, Oscar
1856-1900 British Author Wit
Nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
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Wilde, Oscar
1856-1900 British Author Wit
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.
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Woolf, Virginia
1882-1941 British Novelist Essayist