Teacher Quotes - Page 10

• A schoolteacher or professor cannot educate individuals, he educates only species.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Retirement, Teaching, Individual

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook J 10, 1799.

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• So what does a good teacher do? Create tension - but just the right amount.

  Donald A. Norman

  Doe, Tension, Amount

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• Experience is the best teacher.

  Penelope Douglas

  Best Teacher

  Penelope Douglas (2014). “Bully: The Fall Away Series”, p.74, Penguin

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• I'm lucky I had some teachers who saw something in me.

  Anne Bancroft

  Saws, Lucky

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• Whatever you want to teach, be brief.

  Horace

  Want, Teach

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• The job of an educator is to teach students to see vitality in themselves

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Education, Jobs

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• When you love people and have the desire to make a profound, positive impact upon the world, then will you have accomplished the meaning to live.

  Sasha Azevedo

  Inspirational, Appreciation, Teaching

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• I can be a tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration. I can humiliate or heal. In all situations, it is my response that decides whether a crisis will be escalated or de-escalated and a child humanized or dehumanized.

  Haim Ginott

  Inspirational, Children, Responsibility

  "Fair Isn't Always Equal: Assessing & Grading in the Differentiated Classroom". Book by Rick Wormeli, p. 9, 2006.

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• Learning is never done without errors and defeat.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Inspirational, Education, Learning

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• One good teacher in a lifetime may sometimes change a delinquent into a solid citizen.

  Philip Wylie

  Appreciation, Citizens, May

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• Let Nature be your teacher

  William Wordsworth

  Nature, Science, Natural

  William Wordsworth (1837). “The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth: Together with a Description of the Country of the Lakes in the North of England, Now First Published with His Works ...”, p.337

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• The best teachers are the best storytellers.

  Frank Smith

  Teaching, Storyteller, Inspirational Teacher

  Frank Smith (2014). “To Think: In Language, Learning and Education”, p.62, Routledge

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• We learn by teaching.

  James Howell

  Teaching

  James Howell (1660). “Lexicon Tetraglotton, an English-French-Italian-Spanish Dictionary: Whereunto is Adjoined a Large Nomenclature of the Proper Terms (in All the Four) Belonging to Several Arts and Sciences, to Recreations, to Professions Both Liberal and Mechanick, &c. Divided Into Fiftie Two Sections; with Another Volume of the Choicest Proverbs in All the Said Toungs, (consisting of Divers Compleat Tomes)”

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• Natural ability is by far the best, but many men have succeeded in winning high renown by skill that is the fruit of teaching.

  Pindar

  Teaching, Winning, Men

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• I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.

  Khalil Gibran

  Inspirational, Life, Education

  Khalil Gibran “The New Frontier and Sand and Foam”, Library of Alexandria

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• Education is not to reform students or amuse them or to make them expert technicians. It is to unsettle their minds, widen their horizons, inflame their intellects, teach them to think straight, if possible.

  Robert M. Hutchins

  Education, Powerful, Thinking

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• I'm an unemployed teacher right now and I'm looking for a place to teach.

  Bobby Knight

  Sports, Retirement, Unemployed

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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.

  John Lubbock

  Education, Nature, Book

  "The Use of Life" by John Lubbock, (Ch. IV), 1894.

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• Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.

  Oscar Wilde

  Inspirational, Funny, Sarcastic

  Oscar Wilde (2014). “The Wit and Wisdom of Oscar Wilde”, p.127, Courier Corporation

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• Awaken people's curiosity. It is enough to open minds, do not overload them. Put there just a spark.

  Anatole France

  Inspirational, Education, Appreciation

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• We learn by example and by direct experience because there are real limits to the adequacy of verbal instruction.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Real, Teaching, Learning

  Malcolm Gladwell (2007). “Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking”, p.40, Hachette UK

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• There is an old saying that the course of civilization is a race between catastrophe and education. In a democracy such as ours, we must make sure that education wins the race.

  John F. Kennedy

  Thank You, Teaching, Winning

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• A teacher is never too smart to learn from his pupils.

  Bill Bowerman

  Smart, Teaching, Pupils

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• If a man keeps cherishing his old knowledge so as continually to be acquiring new, he may be a teacher of others.

  Confucius

  Self Esteem, Men, May

  Confucius (2013). “Confucian Analects, The Great Learning & The Doctrine of the Mean”, p.149, Courier Corporation

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• We can teach from our experience, but we cannot teach experience.

  Sasha Azevedo

  Inspirational Teacher, Experience, Teach

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