Teaching Quotes - Page 3

• The trouble is that thinking looks like loafing. Who wants to pay people for daydreaming?

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Inspirational, Learning, Thinking

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• It is not the biggest, the brightest or the best that will survive, but those who adapt the quickest.

  Charles Darwin

  Leadership, Learning

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• Winning and losing aren't all they're cracked up to be, but the trip to the destination is.

  John Wooden

  Learning, Winning, Losing

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• We know at lot more now than the 'last time around the 1960s and 1970s - about how to work for smart schools... ' 'The smart school finds it's foundation in a rich and evolving set of principles about human thinking and learning.'

  David Perkins

  Smart, School, Learning

  David Perkins (2008). “Smart Schools: From Training Memories to Educating Minds”, p.229, Simon and Schuster

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• The mind aware of itself is a pilot... vastly freer than a passenger mind.

  Marilyn Ferguson

  Learning, Mind, Pilots

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• In order to act, you must be somewhat insane .A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.

  Georges Clemenceau

  Learning, Men, Thinking

  "Clemenceau. The Events Of His Life As Told By Himself To His Former Secretary Jean Martet". Translated by Milton Waldman, Chapter 12, 1930.

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• Talent comes with an individual name tag.

  Charles Handy

  Learning, Names, Tag

  Charles B. Handy (2003). “The Elephant and the Flea: Reflections of a Reluctant Capitalist”, p.62, Harvard Business Press

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• We have two strategies for coping; the way of avoidance or the way of attention.

  Marilyn Ferguson

  Learning, Two, Attention

  Marilyn Ferguson (1987). “The Aquarian Conspiracy: Personal and Social Transformation in the 1980s”, Tarcher

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• People whose talents are not exploited become disenchanted and disruptive.

  Terence Conran

  Learning, People, Talent

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• Man ultimately decides for himself! And in the end, education must be education towards the ability to decide

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Learning, Men, Ends

  Viktor E Frankl (2012). “The Doctor and the Soul: From Psychotherapy to Logotherapy”, p.11, Souvenir Press

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• We are all afraid. That's the thing that unites all truly successful people: fear, fear of failing, fear of criticism, fear of letting down the team in some way. That why they try so hard, that's why they pay attention to detail and try to get every possible duck in a row. It's fear

  Peggy Noonan

  Team, Learning, Successful

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• I am teaching... This year it's kind of like having a love affair with a rhinoceros.

  Anne Sexton

  Education, Kind, Affair

  "Anne Sexton: A Self-portrait in Letters".

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• Education begins at home. You can't blame the school for not putting into your child what you don't put into him.

  Geoffrey Holder

  Inspirational, Children, School

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• When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves he isn't a man of action.

  Georges Clemenceau

  Learning, Men, Action

  "Clemenceau. The Events Of His Life As Told By Himself To His Former Secretary Jean Martet". Translated by Milton Waldman, Chapter 12, 1930.

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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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• An individual who stands out, or disagrees or takes risks is a danger to such systems and is effortlessly and, unconsciously sidelined.

  John Ralston Saul

  Learning, Risk, Individual

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• Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process.

  A. Bartlett Giamatti

  Art, Mindfulness, Realization

  A. Bartlett Giamatti (1981). “The University and the Public Interest”, Atheneum Books

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• To me the sole hope of human salvation lies in teaching.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Inspirational, Education, Teacher

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• actions speak louder than words

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Inspirational, Suicide, Wisdom

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2013). “The Complete Hush, Hush Saga: includes Hush, Hush; Crescendo; Silence and Finale”, p.659, Simon and Schuster

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• Teaching is the canny art of intellectual temptation

  Jerome Bruner

  Art, Learning, Temptation

  Jerome Seymour Bruner (1979). “On Knowing: Essays for the Left Hand”, p.78, Harvard University Press

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• I've always tried to be aware of what I say in my films, because all of us who make motion pictures are teachers - teachers with very loud voices.

  George Lucas

  Education, Teacher, Loud Voices

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• Nowadays, when a speaker tells the graduates that the future is theirs--is that a promise or a threat?

  Milton Berle

  Education, Promise, Graduates

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• One barrier... is the impoverishment of classroom language, the failure to cultivate a common vocabulary about inquiry, explanation, argument and problem solving.

  David Perkins

  Learning, Vocabulary, Inquiry

  David Perkins (2008). “Smart Schools: From Training Memories to Educating Minds”, p.143, Simon and Schuster

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• The young child approaching a new subject or anew problem is like the scientist operating at the edge of his chosen field.

  Jerome Bruner

  Children, Learning, Fields

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  [Kids] don't remember what you try to teach them. They remember what you are.

  Jim Henson

  Motivational, Family, Education

  Jim Henson (2007). “Wisdom from It's Not Easy Being Green: And Other Things to Consider”, p.54, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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