Teaching Quotes - Page 8

• Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.

  G. M. Trevelyan

  Education, Reading, Learning

  English Social History ch. 18 (1942)

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• The only language men ever speak perfectly is the one they learn in babyhood, when no one can teach them anything!

  Maria Montessori

  Men, Language, Speak

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• Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater.

  William Hazlitt

  Education, Teacher, Money

  William Hazlitt (1839). “Sketches and Essays”, p.298

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• The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.

  C. S. Lewis

  Education, Teacher, Cutting

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.240, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.

  Eric Hoffer

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Speech on the Occasion of the Opening of the Governor General's Canadian Leadership Conference by Adrienne Clarkson in Winnipeg, archive.gg.ca. May 07, 2004.

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• The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Inspirational, Motivational, Writing

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• He who opens a school door, closes a prison.

  Victor Hugo

  Education, Appreciation, Teacher

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• Begin challenging your own assumptions. Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in awhile, or the light won't come in.

  Alan Alda

  Change, Humility, Thinking

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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, Teacher, Writing

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• Education is the best provision for old age.

  Aristotle

  Graduation, Education, Inspirational Teacher

  Aristotle (2015). “The Aristotle Collection [50 Books]”, Catholic Way Publishing

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  From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life.

  Arthur Ashe

  Inspirational, Kindness, Giving

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• I am sure it is one's duty as a teacher to try to show boys that no opinions, no tastes, no emotions are worth much unless they are one's own. I suffered acutely as a boy from the lack of being shown this.

  A. C. Benson

  Life, Teacher, Self Esteem

  A. C. Benson, Robert Hugh Benson (2007). “The Temple of Death”, p.8, Wordsworth Editions

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  If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.

  Yogi Berra

  Inspirational, Funny, Success

  "Yogi Berra, baseball Hall of Famer and New York Yankees catcher, dies at 90" by Alan Evans, www.theguardian.com. September 23, 2015.

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• Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource.

  John F. Kennedy

  Inspiring, Education, Teacher

  Kennedy, John F. (1962). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1961”, p.107, Best Books on

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• It is not enough to have a good mind. The main thing is to use it well.

  Rene Descartes

  Inspirational, Education, Learning

  "Discourse on the Method". Book by Rene Descartes (Part 1), 1637.

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• We now accept the fact that learning is a lifelong process of keeping abreast of change. And the most pressing task is to teach people how to learn.

  Peter Drucker

  Change, Teacher, Educational

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• Adventure is worthwhile in itself.

  Amelia Earhart

  Travel, Famous Inspirational, Memorable

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.

  Albert Einstein

  Math, Science, Logical Ideas

  "Obituary for Emmy Noether". Letter to the Editor of The New York Times, www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk. May 5, 1935.

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• The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.

  John F. Kennedy

  Education, Life Lesson, Goal

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  I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Dream, Kings, Children

  Speech at Civil Rights March,Washington, D.C., 28 Aug. 1963

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• Teachers are expected to reach unattainable goals with inadequate tools. The miracle is that at times they accomplish this impossible task.

  Haim Ginott

  Appreciation, Teacher, Goal

  "Teacher and child". Book by Haim Ginott, 1972.

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• The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Happiness, Use, Happy Inspirational

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  In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open, except yourself.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (1998). “You are the World: Authentic Report of Talks and Discussions in American Universities”, p.148, Krishnamurti Foundation Trust Ltd.

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• Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.

  C. S. Lewis

  Life, Wisdom, Teacher

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• The teacher is the one who gets the most out of the lessons, and that the true teacher is a learner.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Teacher, Retirement, Literature

  "Little Journeys To The Homes Of Great Teachers". Volume XXII,

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