Teaching Quotes

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  It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Dance, Education

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  What is a teacher? I'll tell you: it isn't someone who teaches something, but someone who inspires the student to give of her best in order to discover what she already knows.

  Paulo Coelho

  Inspiring, Teacher, Order

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• Teaching is more than imparting knowledge, it is inspiring change.

  William Arthur Ward

  Motivational, Teacher, Learning

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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

  Teacher, Educational, Important

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• Whoe'er excels in what we prize,
  Appears a hero in our eyes;
  Each girl, when pleased with what is taught,
  Will have the teacher in her thought.
  . . . .
  A blockhead with melodious voice,
  In boarding-schools may have his choice.

  Jonathan Swift

  Girl, Teacher, Hero

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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

  Teacher, Successful, Knowing

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• Good teaching is more a giving of right questions than a giving of right answers.

  Josef Albers

  Inspirational, Education, Appreciation

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  Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.

  Xunzi

  Inspiring, Leadership, Teacher

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• The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.

  Mark Van Doren

  Education, Appreciation, Teacher

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  I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.

  Winston Churchill

  Funny, Leadership, Education

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• To know how to suggest is the art of teaching.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Teacher, Art, Educational

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• Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.

  E. M. Forster

  Inspirational, Education, Running

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  Learning never exhausts the mind.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Inspirational, Education, Learning

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• The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves.

  Helen Keller

  Teacher, Cheer, Being Alone

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• All human beings are born with unique gifts. The healthy functioning community depends on realizing the capacity to develop each gift.

  Peter Senge

  Unique, Community, Healthy

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• Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants.

  John W. Gardner

  Education, Flower, Learning

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• What the teacher is, is more important than what he teaches.

  Karl A. Menninger

  Teacher, Appreciation, Retirement

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• I'm not a teacher: only a fellow traveler of whom you asked the way. I pointed ahead - ahead of myself as well as you.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Education, Teacher, Advice

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• What's a' your jargon o' your schools, Your Latin names for horns and stools; If honest nature made you fools.

  Robert Burns

  Latin, School, Names

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• Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.

  John Steinbeck

  Teacher, Art, Mind

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• In teaching you cannot see the fruit of a day's work. It is invisible and remains so, maybe for twenty years.

  Jacques Barzun

  Teacher, Appreciation, Educational

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• Imagination is more important than knowledge.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Positive, Leadership

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• I transmit but do not create. I place my trust in the teachings of antiquity.

  Confucius

  Oneness, Antiquity, Transmit

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• Many people think of the Bible as a book of moral teachings with stories sprinkled through to illustrate the teachings. But it's a lot BETTER THAN THAT...the Bible is a single true story with teachings sprinkled through to illustrate the story.

  Timothy Keller

  Book, Thinking, People

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• A master can tell you what he expects of you. A teacher, though, awakens your own expectations.

  Patricia Neal

  Teacher, Appreciation, Retirement

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