Teaching Quotes - Page 5

• 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.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Education, Teacher, Learning

  "Lincoln's Inaugurals, Addresses and Letters".

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• The ability to take misfortune and make something good come of it is a rare gift. Those who possess it are ..said to have resilience or courage.

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  Learning, Resilience, Said

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (2001). “Flow: the psychology of optimal experience”

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• We have to learn to make our own way through a complex world without the benefit of an accepted trustworthy route map.

  Guy Claxton

  Learning, Benefits, World

  Guy Claxton (2001). “Wise Up”, p.254, A&C Black

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• If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it.

  Mao Zedong

  Food, Learning, Want

  Mao Tse-Tung, Zedong Mao (1977). “Selected Works of Mao Tse-Tung”, Pergamon

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• Teaching isn't one-tenth as effective as training.

  Horace Mann

  Teacher, Training

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• 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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• Every parent's deepest wish is that their children are self sufficient, happy, and able to live a full life.

  Peter Block

  Children, Learning, Self

  Peter Block (2002). “The Answer to how is Yes: Acting on what Matters”, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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• If we taught music the way we try to teach engineering, in an unbroken four year course, we could end up with all theory and no music. When we study music, we start to practice from the beginning, and we practice for the entire time.

  Charles Kettering

  Engineering, Years, Practice

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• After the final no there comes a yes
  And on that yes the future world depends.

  Wallace Stevens

  Inspirational, Future, Learning

  "Harmonium". Book by Wallace Stevens, 1923.

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• Expert tutors often do not help very much. They hang back letting the student manage as much as possible. And when things go awry, rather than help directly they raise questions: 'Could you explain this step again? How did you... ?

  Mark Lepper

  Learning, Raises Questions, Experts

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• Teaching art is a shared experience. Our ability to share our own personal vision and interact with others through art can become realized.

  Michael Bell

  Art, Vision, Share

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• The most fruitful and worthwhile thing I have ever done has been to teach.

  Harvey Dunn

  Worthwhile Things, Done, Has Beens

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• The germ of an idea doesn't make the sculpture that stands up... so the next stage is hard work

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  Hard Work, Learning, Ideas

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• Be an opener of doors for such as come after thee.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Teacher, Doors, Progress

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.117, Harvard University Press

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• To know how to suggest is the great art of teaching. To attain it we must be able to guess what will interest; we must learn to read the childish soul as we might a piece of music. Then, by simply changing the key, we keep up the attraction and vary the song.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Song, Teacher, Art

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• The children are now working as if I did not exist.

  Maria Montessori

  Education, Teacher, Children

  "The Absorbent Mind" by Maria Montessori, Ch. 27, (p. 283), 1949.

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• If you do not know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Inspiring, Success, Baseball

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• You don't have to be a 'person of influence' to be influential. In fact, the most influential people in my life are probably not even aware of the things they've taught me.

  Scott Adams

  Inspirational Life, Learning, People

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• A self-taught man usually has a poor teacher and a worse student.

  Henny Youngman

  Teacher, Men, Self

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• If you cannot explain it simply, you do not understand it enough.

  Albert Einstein

  Success, Data, Simply You

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• All human beings are born with unique gifts. The healthy functioning community depends on realizing the capacity to develop each gift.

  Peter Senge

  Unique, Community, Healthy

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• Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre.

  Gail Godwin

  Inspirational, Thank You, Education

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• The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves.

  Helen Keller

  Teacher, Cheer, Being Alone

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• I have my faults, but changing my tune is not one of them.

  Samuel Beckett

  Learning, Tunes, Faults

  Samuel Beckett (2009). “Three Novels: Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable”, p.329, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Inspirational, Funny, Leadership

  Time Enough for Love "Prelude II" (1973)

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