Teacher Quotes - Page 9

• There is no real teacher who in practise does not believe in the existence of the soul, or in a magic that acts on it through speech.

  Allan Bloom

  Retirement, Real, Teaching

  Allan Bloom (2008). “Closing of the American Mind”, p.20, Simon and Schuster

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• I believe that every human soul is teaching something to someone nearly every minute here in mortality.

  M. Russell Ballard

  Believe, Teaching, Soul

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• Acquire new knowledge whilst thinking over the old, and you may become a teacher of others.

  Confucius

  Teaching, Learning, Knowledge

  Confucius (1907). “The Sayings of Confucius”

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• We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.

  Cynthia Ozick

  Thanksgiving, Thank You, Thankful

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• The great pilot can sail even when his canvass is rent.

  Seneca the Younger

  Pilots, Sail

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• It is by teaching that we teach ourselves, by relating that we observe, by affirming that we examine, by showing that we look, by writing that we think, by pumping that we draw water into the well.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Inspirational, Teaching, Writing

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• Teaching is only demonstrating that it is possible. Learning is making it possible for yourself.

  Paulo Coelho

  Inspirational, Teaching, Students

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• Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained.

  James A. Garfield

  Education, Teaching, Justice

  Garfield, James A. (1882). “The works of James Abram Garfield. Volume 2”, p.783, Best Books on

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• You don't have to teach people how to be human. You have to teach them how to stop being inhuman.

  Eldridge Cleaver

  People, Justice, Diversity

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• 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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• 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 Anderson

  Educational, Teaching, Needs

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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 teacher of all things.

  Julius Caesar

  Life, Experience, All Things

  "Commentarii de Bello Civili" by Julius Caesar,

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• Effective teaching may be the hardest job there is.

  William Glasser

  Jobs, Teaching, Hardest Job

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• Education is what most receive, many pass on, and few possess.

  Karl Kraus

  Education, Appreciation, Teaching

  Karl Kraus (1977). “No Compromise: Selected Writings of Karl Kraus”, Frederick Ungar

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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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• We schoolmasters must temper discretion with deceit.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Retirement, Hype, Deceit

  Evelyn Waugh (1968). “A Handful of Dust: Decline and Fall”

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• "It would seem that you have no useful skill or talent whatsoever" he said. "Have you thought of going into teaching?"

  Terry Pratchett

  Inspirational, Humorous, Teaching

  "Mort (Discworld, Book 4)". Book by Terry Pratchett, November 12, 1987.

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

  Anne Bancroft

  Saws, Lucky

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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

  "The BBC Talks of E.M. Forster, 1929-1960: A Selected Edition". Book by Edward Morgan Forster, ‎Mary Lago, ‎Linda K. Hughes, June 3, 2008.

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• You may be a redneck if... you have spent more on your pickup truck than on your education.

  Jeff Foxworthy

  Retirement, Work, Educational

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• A school should not be a preparation for life. A school should be life.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Education, Retirement, School

  Elbert Hubbard (1902). “Contemplations: Being Several Short Essays Helpful Sermonettes, Epigrams and Orphic Sayings”

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• The whole secret of the teacher's force lies in the conviction that men are convertible.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Education, Lying, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1964). “The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.278, Harvard University Press

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• Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Children, Years, Giving

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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

  Fishing, Giving, Entrepreneur

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