Teaching Quotes - Page 16

• In order for the brain to comprehend the heart must first listen.

  David Perkins

  Learning, Heart, Order

  David Perkins (2008). “Smart Schools: From Training Memories to Educating Minds”, p.114, Simon and Schuster

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• Let us think of education as the means of developing our greatest abilities, because in each of us there is a private hope and dream which, fulfilled, can be translated into benefit for everyone and greater strength of the nation.

  John F. Kennedy

  Education, Dream, Teacher

  Proclamation 3422 at the American Education Week, www.presidency.ucsb.edu. July 25, 1961.

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• It is, in fact, nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry; for this delicate little plant, aside from stimulation, stands mainly in need of freedom; without this it goes to wrack and ruin without fail. It is a grave mistake to think that the enjoyment of seeing and searching can be promoted by means of coercion and a sense of duty.

  Albert Einstein

  Education, Mistake, Learning

  Albert Einstein (2008). “The Essential Einstein: His Greatest Works”, Penguin Group(CA)

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• Nothing enrages me more than when people criticize my criticism of school by telling me that schools are not just places to learn maths and spelling, they are places where children learn a vaguely defined thing called socialization...I think schools generally do an effective and terribly damaging job of teaching children to be infantile, dependent, intellectually dishonest, passive and disrespectful to their own developmental capacities.

  Seymour Papert

  Jobs, Children, Learning

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• The biggest mistake of past centuries in teaching has been to treat all students as if they were variants of the same individual and thus to feel justified in teaching them all the same subjects the same way.

  Howard Gardner

  Inspirational, Education, Mistake

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• The man (or woman) who can make hard things easy is the educator.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Teacher, Powerful, Learning

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• When our students fail, we, as teachers, too, have failed.

  Marva Collins

  Teacher, Students, Failing

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• Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people can be engaged in. That every man may receive at least a moderate education...appears to be an object of vital importance...

  Abraham Lincoln

  Education, Teacher, Views

  Abraham Lincoln's Address Delivered in Candidacy for the State Legislature, March 9, 1832.

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• A teacher should be sparing of his smile.

  William Cowper

  Education, Teacher, His Smile

  William Cowper, Robert Southey (1835). “The Works of William Cowper, Comprising His Poems, Correspondence, and Translations”, p.147

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• Passive acceptance of the teacher's wisdom is easy to most boys and girls. It involves no effort of independent thought, and seems rational because the teacher knows more than his pupils; it is moreover the way to win the favour of the teacher unless he is a very exceptional man. Yet the habit of passive acceptance is a disastrous one in later life. It causes man to seek and to accept a leader, and to accept as a leader whoever is established in that position.

  Bertrand Russell

  Leadership, Girl, Teacher

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “Why Men Fight”, p.106, Routledge

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• You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.

  Mark Twain

  Life, Inspiring, Meaningful

  Mark Twain (1889). “A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court”, p.422, Createspace Independent Pub

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• Curiosity is the wick in the candle of learning.

  William Arthur Ward

  Inspirational, Wise, Learning

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• When one teaches, two learn.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Education, Clever, Learning

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• Let the main object... to seek and to find a method of instruction, by which teachers may teach less, but learners learn more.

  John Amos Comenius

  Teacher, Learning, May

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• You teach best what you most need to learn.

  Richard Bach

  Education, Wisdom, Learning

  Richard Bach (2012). “Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah”, p.48, Delta

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• The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.

  Carl Rogers

  Inspirational, Motivational, Education

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• Our duty is to understand youth, but more, to help them understand themselves that they may release their varied abilities... We must help them to discover a life work, not work for life.

  Henrietta Mears

  May, Helping, Youth

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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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• To dazzle let the vain design, To raise the thought and touch the heart, be thine!

  Alexander Pope

  Heart, Design, Dazzle

  Alexander Pope, Owen Ruffhead (1769). “Life comp. by Owen Ruffhead”, p.222

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• The role of the artist is like that of an explorer and a teacher - a teacher of seeing. No one is more capable of conveying this enlightenment than the artist.

  Ken Danby

  Teacher, Artist, Enlightenment

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• The objective of false prophets and teachers of whatever stripe is...the influence and control of the minds of men.

  Ron Dart

  Education, Teacher, Lying

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• I was surprised that each expert cared for different images, and had varied suggestions for how to continue my work. If each expert had been my teacher, I would have pursued four different directions, and lost my way.

  Jane Fulton Alt

  Teacher, Suggestions, Experts

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• Teaching, the most noble profession, should be rewarded based on merit alone, not seniority.

  Mark Kostabi

  Noble, Merit, Should

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• The best way to teach somebody something is to have them think they're learning something else.

  Randy Pausch

  Thinking, Way, Teach

  YouTube Channel "Carnegie Mellon University"/"Randy Pausch Last Lecture: Achieving Your Childhood Dreams", www.youtube.com. December 20, 2007.

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• Professors known as outstanding lecturers do two things; they use a simple plan and many examples.

  Wilbert J. McKeachie

  Simple, Essence, Two

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