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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I am not a teacher, but an awakener.

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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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You teach best what you most need to learn.

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Those who know how to think need no teachers.

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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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Teaching is of more importance than urging.

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To teach is to learn twice.

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He who does not research has nothing to teach.

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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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The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.

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

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

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

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

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

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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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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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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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Never offer to teach a fish to swim.

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

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

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

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

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He who dares to teach must never cease to learn.

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

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

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

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

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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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Who dares to teach must never cease to learn.

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Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Teaching is the greatest act of optimism.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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First he wrought, and afterward he taught.

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I think I've become more like my mom just because of what we're both interested in, children and teaching and writing.

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At the core of who we are is the roots of those that have influenced our lives the most and the impact of what they have exposed us to is always there and when the foundation is laid with love and commitment, our lives at some point will reflect that of which we have been taught.

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You can't teach a hunter it's wrong to kill.

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Those who go to college and never get out are called professors.

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One of the most important elements in teaching, conducting, and performing, all three, is listening.

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I am not willing that this discussion should close without mention of the value of a true teacher. Give me a log hut, with only a simple bench, Mark Hopkins on one end and I on the other, and you may have all the buildings, apparatus and libraries without him.

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We love the precepts for the teacher's sake.

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When we were in the seminary we got a stipend direct from the government and for that stipend we had an obligation to stick to our teaching job for five years.

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Knowledge exists to be imparted.

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So many schools have cut the music classes out of their curriculum. We're trying to fill that gap by teaching the teachers how to educate the kids about their musical heritage.

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When I was writing my first two books I was also freelancing and teaching and doing other odd jobs.

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I believe sanity and realism can be restored to the teaching of Mathematical Statistics most easily and directly by entrusting such teaching largely to men and women who have had personal experience of research in the Natural Sciences.

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The real difficulty, the difficulty which has baffled the sages of all times, is rather this: how can we make our teaching so potent in the motional life of man, that its influence should withstand the pressure of the elemental psychic forces in the individual?

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Machiavelli's teaching would hardly have stood the test of Parliamentary government, for public discussion demands at least the profession of good faith.

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Teaching was the hardest work I had ever done, and it remains the hardest work I have done to date.

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A wisely chosen illustration is almost essential to fasten the truth upon the ordinary mind, and no teacher can afford to neglect this part of his preparation.

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The proper method for hastening the decay of error is by teaching every man to think for himself.

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I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.

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When I first started teaching at Berkeley in 1958, I could not announce that I was gay to anybody, though probably quite a few of my fellow teachers knew.

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Teaching physics at the University, and more general lecturing to wider audiences has been a major concern.

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Once more I would adopt the graver style -- a teacher should be sparing of his smile.

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You see, I have in my teaching - I always say I've done it for a hundred years and have had thousands of students - I have always spoken against just falling onto your knees for so-called accidents, I mean a result you are not responsible for.

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My being a teacher had a decisive influence on making language and systems as simple as possible so that in my teaching, I could concentrate on the essential issues of programming rather than on details of language and notation.

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I don't think there's any such thing as teaching people photography, other than influencing them a little. People have to be their own learners. They have to have a certain talent.

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It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn.

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An Englishman teaching an American about food is like the blind leading the one-eyed.

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