Teacher Quotes - Page 39

• The only dance masters I could have were Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Walt Whitman and Nietzsche.

  Isadora Duncan

  Dance, Dancing, Jean Jacques Rousseau

  Isadora Duncan (1972). “My Life”, Liveright Publishing Corporation

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• Optimism is the foundation of courage.

  Nicholas Murray Butler

  Life, Appreciation, Courage

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• Good teaching must be slow enough so that it is not confusing, and fast enough so that it is not boring.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Teaching, Confusing, Boring

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• Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.

  W. H. Murray

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.

  David McCullough

  Love, Motivational, Success

  FaceBook post by David McCullough from Aug 17, 2012

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• I've seen and met angels wearing the disguise of ordinary people living ordinary lives.

  Tracy Chapman

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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• It takes a great deal of living to get a little deal of learning.

  John Ruskin

  Wisdom, Teaching, Learning

  John Ruskin (1899*). “John Ruskin's Works”

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• I believe the teacher's work is largely negative, that it is largely a matter of saying, "This doesn't work because ..." or "This does work because ..." The because is very important. The teacher can help you understand the nature of your medium, and he can guide you in your reading.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Teaching, Reading, Believe

  Flannery O'Connor (1969). “Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose”, p.86, Macmillan

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• The greatest dreams are always unrealistic.

  Will Smith

  Inspirational, Dream, Appreciation

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• Living fearlessly is not the same as never being afraid. It's good to be afraid occasionally. Fear is a great teacher.

  Michael Ignatieff

  Inspirational, Fear, Being Afraid

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• Often nothing keeps the pupil on the move but his faith in his teacher, whose mastery is now beginning to dawn on him .... How far the pupil will go is not the concern of the teacher and master. Hardly has he shown him the right way when he must let him go on alone. There is only one thing more he can do to help him endure his loneliness: he turns him away from himself, from the Master, by exhorting him to go further than he himself has done, and to "climb on the shoulders of his teacher."

  Eugen Herrigel

  Loneliness, Teaching, Moving

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• Education should turn out the pupil with something he knows well and something he can do well.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Inspirational, Education, Pupils

  Alfred North Whitehead (1967). “Aims of Education”, p.48, Simon and Schuster

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• We live in a post-authentic world, and today authenticity is a house of mirrors. It's all just what you're bringing when the lights go down. It's your teachers, your influences, and your personal history. At the end of the day, it's the power and purpose of your music that still matters.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Music, Mirrors, Light

  "The post-authentic world". "Future Tense" with Antony Funnell, www.abc.net.au. September 23, 2012.

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• A note of music gains significance from the silence on either side.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Music, Silence, Gains

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• If you become a teacher, by your pupils you'll be taught.

  Oscar Hammerstein II

  Music, Taught, Jazz

  "Song: 'Getting to Know You'". "The King and I". Musical by Oscar Hammerstein II, 1956.

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• It was quite tough, not many opportunities.
  I remember in primary school, one of my teachers said, "As for you young man, you haven't got much of a future."

  John Ilhan

  Inspirational, Business, School

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• Once children learn how to learn, nothing is going to narrow their mind. The essence of teaching is to make learning contagious, to have one idea spark another.

  Marva Collins

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Marva Collins (1990). “Marva Collins' Way”, Tarcher

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• The great end of education is, to discipline rather than to furnish the mind; to train it to the use of its own powers, rather than fill it with the accumulation of others.

  Tryon Edwards

  Education, Learning, Discipline

  " A Dictionary of Thoughts: Being a Cyclopedia of Laconic Quotations from the Best Authors of the World, Both Ancient and Modern" by Tryon Edwards, New York, Cassell publishing company, (p. 134), 1891.

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• Knowledge passes from dance teacher into the student through the process of mane, which is often translated as imitation, but learning to dance is more a process of total identification than of simple copying. We repeat the movements of our teachers until we can duplicate them exactly, until, in a sense, we have absorbed the teacher's mastery into ourselves. Artistic technique must be fully integrated into the cells of our bodies if we are to use it to express what is in our hearts, and this takes many years of practice.

  Mineko Iwasaki

  Dance, Heart, Simple

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• Your role as a leader is even more important than you might imagine. You have the power to help people become winners.

  Ken Blanchard

  Business, Learning, People

  Ken Blanchard (2010). “The Heart of a Leader”, p.13, David C Cook

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• Nature is man's teacher. She unfolds her treasures to his search, unseals his eye, illumes his mind, and purifies his heart; an influence breathes from all the sights and sounds of her existence.

  Alfred Nobel

  Nature, Travel, Heart

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• My notion of a failed writing workshop is when everybody comes out replicating the teacher and imitating as closely as possible the great original at the head of the table. I think that's a mistake, in obvious opposition to the ideal of teaching which permits a student to be someone other than the teacher. ... The successful teacher has to make each of the students a different product rather than the same.

  Nicholas Delbanco

  Mistake, Teaching, Writing

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• For all the best teachers pride themselves on having a large number of pupils and think themselves worthy of a bigger audience.

  Quintilian

  Learning, Pride, Thinking

  Quintilian (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Quintilian (Illustrated)”, p.24, Delphi Classics

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• Teachers, who educate children, deserve more honour than parents, who merely gave them birth; for the latter provided mere life, while the former ensure a good life.

  Aristotle

  Children, Good Life, Learning

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• The good teacher discovers the natural gifts of his pupils and liberates them.

  Stephen Neal

  Teaching, Learning, Natural Gifts

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