Teaching Quotes - Page 14

• The key to effective teaching is to remember how you learned.

  Clive James

  Keys, Remember, Effective Teaching

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• A teacher should have maximal authority, and minimal power.

  Thomas Szasz

  Education, Teacher, Retirement

  'The Second Sin' (1973) 'Education'

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• Teachers must be encouraged - I almost said 'freed', to pursue an education that strives for depth of understanding.

  Howard Gardner

  Teacher, Understanding, Depth

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• Dwell as near as possible to the channel in which your life flows.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Peace, Learning

  Henry David Thoreau, Jeffrey S. Cramer (2007). “I to Myself: An Annotated Selection from the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau”, p.182, Yale University Press

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• A boy is better unborn than untaught.

  Paul Gascoigne

  Boys, Unborn

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• We must not contradict, but instruct him that contradicts us; for a madman is not cured by another running mad also.

  Antisthenes

  Running, Mad, Personality

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations". Pp. 779-80, 1922.

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• It is easier for a tutor to command than to teach.

  John Locke

  Teacher, Easier, Command

  John Locke (1693). “Some Thoughts Concerning Education”, p.64

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• My heart is singing for joy this morning! A miracle has happened! The light of understanding has shone upon my little pupil's mind, and behold, all things are changed!

  Anne Sullivan Macy

  Education, Morning, Learning

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• If you don't know where you're going any road will do

  Lewis Carroll

  Baseball, Travel, Goals Dreams

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• We learn by teaching.

  James Howell

  Teacher

  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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• No bubble is so iridescent or floats longer than that blown by the successful teacher.

  William Osler

  Teacher, Successful, Iridescent

  Sir William Osler, Mark E. Silverman, T. J. Murray, Charles S. Bryan, American College of Physicians--American Society of Internal Medicine (2003). “The Quotable Osler”, p.215, ACP Press

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• None of us got where we are solely by pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps.

  Thurgood Marshall

  Teacher, Soulmate, Ivy

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• What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Inspirational, Education, Teacher

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• What we need is more people who specialize in the impossible.

  Theodore Roethke

  Inspirational, Faith, Positive Thinking

  Theodore Roethke, Carolyn Kizer (2013). “On Poetry and Craft: Selected Prose”, p.93, Copper Canyon Press

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• When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

  Quoted in Joseph P. Lash, Eleanor: The Years Alone (1972)

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• There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Life, Perseverance, Moving Forward

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• Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Love, Dream, Stars

  Theodore Roosevelt (1955). “Theodore Roosevelt's America: Selections from the Writings of the Oyster Bay Naturalist”

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• We should not teach children the sciences; but give them a taste for them.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Education, Children, Learning

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• You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Teacher, Retirement, Ambition

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• Children cannot bounce off the walls if we take away the walls.

  Erin Kenny

  Children, Wall, Ifs

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• To go faster you must slow down.

  John Brunner

  Learning, Slow Down, Faster

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• You learn at your best when you have something you care about and can get pleasure in being engaged in.

  Howard Gardner

  Learning, Care, Pleasure

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• It is sinful for students to badmouth their teachers and sinful for teachers to mislead their students.

  Igor Babailov

  Teacher, Students, Mislead

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• Doctrina sed vim promovet insitam. Instruction enlarges the natural powers of the mind.

  Horace

  Mind, Vim, Natural

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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

  Jonathan Swift, Thomas Roscoe (1843). “The Works of Jonathan Swift ...: Containing Interesting and Valuable Papers, Not Hitherto Published ... With Memoir of the Author”, p.681

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