teaching quotes

You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself.

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In learning you will teach, and in teaching you will learn.

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Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life.

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Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he will eat for the rest of his life.

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I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.

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In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.

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It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.

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The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.

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Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself.

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You teach best what you most need to learn.

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I am not a teacher, but an awakener.

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Those who know how to think need no teachers.

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To be good is noble, but to teach others how to be good is nobler and less trouble.

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Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.

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In teaching others we teach ourselves.

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To teach is to learn twice.

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Teaching is of more importance than urging.

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He who does not research has nothing to teach.

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The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.

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The man who can make hard things easy is the educator.

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The world of knowledge takes a crazy turn when teachers themselves are taught to learn.

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We spend the first twelve months of our children's lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve telling them to sit down and shut up.

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When you introduce a moral lesson, let it be brief.

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The best way to obtain truth and wisdom is not to ask from books, but to go to God in prayer, and obtain divine teaching.

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A gifted teacher is as rare as a gifted doctor, and makes far less money.

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Good teaching must be slow enough so that it is not confusing, and fast enough so that it is not boring.

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Mentor and coach others whenever you can. Your teaching will deepen your own learning.

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Never offer to teach a fish to swim.

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Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.

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The secret of teaching is to appear to have known all your life what you just learned this morning.

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I am quite sure that in the hereafter she will take me by the hand and lead me to my proper seat.

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

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He who undertakes to be his own teacher has a fool for a pupil.

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The teacher gives not of his wisdom, but rather of his faith and lovingness.

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The teacher is one who makes two ideas grow where only one grew before.

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A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.

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A professor is one who talks in someone else's sleep.

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He who dares to teach must never cease to learn.

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Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.

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No one ever teaches well who wants to teach, or governs well who wants to govern.

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The dream begins with a teacher who believes in you, who tugs and pushes and leads you to the next plateau, sometimes poking you with a sharp stick called truth.

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There is no real teacher who in practice does not believe in the existence of the soul, or in a magic that acts on it through speech.

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I admire the fact that the central core of Buddhist teaching involves mindfulness and loving kindness and compassion.

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Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants.

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Who dares to teach must never cease to learn.

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The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself.

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Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.

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A schoolteacher or professor cannot educate individuals, he educates only species.

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He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.

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Buddhism has a very beautiful teaching that says the worst thing you can do to your soul is to tell someone their faith is wrong.

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Teaching is the greatest act of optimism.

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No one should teach who is not in love with teaching.

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Unless we do his teachings, we do not demonstrate faith in him.

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Teach success before teaching responsibility. Teach them to believe in themselves. Teach them to think, 'I'm not stupid'. No child wants to fail. Everyone wants to succeed.

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I'm going to be doing exactly what I'm doing now - teaching people about animals.

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A schoolmaster should have an atmosphere of awe, and walk wonderingly, as if he was amazed at being himself.

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Well had the boding tremblers learned to trace the day's disasters in his morning face.

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My object will be, if possible, to form Christian men, for Christian boys I can scarcely hope to make.

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The highest function of the teacher consists not so much in imparting knowledge as in stimulating the pupil in its love and pursuit.

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Now that it's officially summer, here's my advice to parents who want to continue teaching their kids during the next two months and learn something themselves: visit Civil War battlefields.

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Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books.

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So one reason the science educators panic at the first sign of public rebellion is that they fear exposure of the implicit religious content in what they are teaching.

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Buddha's teaching are very simple, you don't have to break your head to understand the message. The part that I like the most from Buddha's teachings and from His Holiness, The Dalai Lama, is that the most powerful weapon is to not attack, to be able to have self-control.

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The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.

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To teach well, we need not say all that we know, Successful teachers are effective in spite of the psychological theories they suffer under.

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When teaching, light a fire, don't fill a bucket.

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We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled, but as candles to be lit.

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The true aim of everyone who aspires to be a teacher should be, not to impart his own opinions, but to kindle minds.

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A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on a cold iron.

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

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First he wrought, and afterward he taught.

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

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If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed; if in terms of ten years, plant trees; if in terms of 100 years, teach the people.

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

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I believe that the testing of the student's achievements in order to see if he meets some criterion held by the teacher, is directly contrary to the implications of therapy for significant learning.

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I am presently in my thirteenth year of teaching a graduate course at the University of Southern California.

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Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each.

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There is no accountability in the public school system - except for coaches. You know what happens to a losing coach. You fire him. A losing teacher can go on losing for 30 years and then go to glory.

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The real trouble with film school is that the people teaching are so far out of the industry that they don't give the students an idea of what's happening.

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Teaching civility is an obligation of the family.

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In the education of children there is nothing like alluring the interest and affection, otherwise you only make so many asses laden with books.

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The truth is that the average schoolmaster, on all the lower levels, is and always must be essentially and next door to an idiot, for how can one imagine an intelligent man engaging in so puerile an avocation?

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The bulk of the universities are about teaching kids.

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Your Master Teacher knows all you need to learn, the perfect timing for your learning it, and the ideal way of teaching it to you. You don't create a Master Teacher -- that's already been done. You discover your Master Teacher.

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What office is there which involves more responsibility, which requires more qualifications, and which ought, therefore, to be more honorable, than that of teaching?

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We think of our efficient teachers with a sense of recognition, but those who touched our humanity we remember with gratitude. Learning is the essential mineral, but warmth is the life-element for the child's soul, no less than for the growing plant.

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Teaching is too strong a word for whatever it was I did at Northeastern University.

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The country is making a big mistake not teaching kids to cook and raise a garden and build fires.

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Most subjects at universities are taught for no other purpose than that they may be re-taught when the students become teachers.

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To teach successfully we must tell all we know, but only what is adaptable to the student.

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To teach a man how he may learn to grow independently, and for himself, is perhaps the greatest service that one man can do another.

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Morality sticks faster when presented in brief sayings than when presented in long discourse.

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Without In The Company of Men, I could still be teaching, so who knows if this would've existed.

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The role of the teacher remains the highest calling of a free people. To the teacher, America entrusts her most precious resource, her children; and asks that they be prepared...to face the rigors of individual participation in a democratic society.

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Jewish fundamentalism is teaching that Jews can fight with guns and with civil war, against being relocated off the West Bank, and disobey the orders of their government. That is the call to jihad, to several kinds of jihad.

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Quand tu veux construire un bateau, ne commence pas par rassembler du bois, couper des planches et distribuer du travail, mais reveille au sein des hommes le desir de la mer grande et large. If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people together to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.

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Having a clear faith, based on the creed of the church is often labeled today as fundamentalism. Whereas relativism, which is letting oneself be tossed and swept along by every wind of teaching, look like the only attitude acceptable to today's standards.

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Sometimes I think war is God's way of teaching us geography.

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Programming is not a zero-sum game. Teaching something to a fellow programmer doesn't take it away from you. I'm happy to share what I can, because I'm in it for the love of programming.

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I teach well. I used to really like teaching a lot. I enjoyed it a lot and I was good at it.

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