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I only had three teachers, really, that were interesting, and all three of them were women.

You are to be in all things regulated and governed,’ said the gentleman, ‘by fact. We hope to have, ...

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He went to work in this preparatory lesson, not unlike Morgiana in the Forty Thieves: looking into a...

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Go ye, who rest so placidly upon the sacred Bard who had been young, and when he strung his harp was...

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The Master said, “A true teacher is one who, keeping the past alive, is also able to understand the ...

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Schools and schoolmasters, as we have them today, are not popular as places of education and teacher...

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He who can does. He who can't teaches.

Tom had never found any difficulty in discerning a pointer from a setter, when once he had been told...

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We teach what we need to learn and write what we need to know.

In brief, the teaching process, as commonly observed, has nothing to do with the investigation and e...

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Because teachers, no matter how kind, no matter how friendly, are sadistic and evil to the core.

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Heather BrewerEighth Grade Bites

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

The chief wonder of education is that it does not ruin everybody concerned in it, teachers and taugh...

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Henry AdamsThe Education of Henry Adams

Teachers dread nothing so much as unusual characteristics in precocious boys during the initial stag...

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You can't stop a teacher when they want to do something. They just do it.

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

I've managed to bring the backlog down to a mere sixty-eight years," she announced with some small s...

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One thing I more and this is all I have to say...High School is not a separate unit from you. We are...

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Jesse StuartThe Thread That Runs So True

The school teacher is certainly underpaid as a child minder but ludicrously overpaid as an educator...

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Few have been taught to any purpose who have not been their own teachers.

I would suggest that teachers show their students concrete examples of the negative effects of the a...

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Jesus does not give recipes that show the way to God as other teachers of religion do. He is himself...

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[W]hat people truly desire is access to the knowledge and information that ultimately lead to a bett...

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Without books we should very likely be a still-primitive people living in the shadow of traditions t...

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Nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

Those who know how to think need no teachers.

Every home is a university and the parents are the teachers.

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Mahatma GandhiThe Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi

People cited violation of the First Amendment when a New Jersey schoolteacher asserted that evolutio...

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How do we change the way science is taught?Ask anybody how many teachers truly made a difference in ...

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Neil deGrasse TysonSpace Chronicles: Facing the Ultimate Frontier

They inspire you, they entertain you, and you end up learning a ton even when you don't know it

Before I started (college), that's the advice my dad gave me. He said to pick classes based on the t...

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Let's reintroduce corporal punishment in the schools - and use it on the teachers.

Everybody make words,' he continued. 'Everybody write things down. Children in school do lessons in ...

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Education must begin with the solution of the student-teacher contradiction, by reconciling the pole...

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There are two kinds of teachers: the kind that fill you with so much quail shot that you can't move,...

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Schoolmastering kept me busy by day and part of each night. I was an assistant housemaster, with a f...

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No school without spectacular eccentrics and crazy hearts is worth attending.

The VoiceThere is a voice inside of youThat whispers all day long,"I feel this is right for me,I kno...

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Everyone who remembers his own education remembers teachers, not methods and techniques. The teacher...

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Students rarely disappoint teachers who assure them in advance that they are doomed to failure.

The children now love luxury. They have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect fo...

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[T]he more critical lesson I learned that day is still one too many kids never figure out: don't be ...

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...teaching is, after all, a form of show business.

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Steve MartinBorn Standing Up: A Comic's Life

At it's highest level, the purpose of teaching is not to teach—it is to inspire the desire for learn...

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The first duty of a lecturer- to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap u...

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You'll have a good, secure life when being alive means more to you than security, love more than mon...

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When you study great teachers... you will learn much more from their caring and hard work than from ...

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I had a terrible education. I attended a school for emotionally disturbed teachers.

Teachers need to feel they are trusted. They must be allowed some leeway to use their imagination; o...

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You see that God deems it right to take from me any claim to merit for what you call my devotion to ...

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Education is unfolding the wings of head and heart together. The job of a teacher is to push the stu...

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An ordinary teacher teaches how to accumulate information. A good teacher teaches how to assimilate ...

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Amit RayWalking the Path of Compassion

Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only ga...

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I am a big believer in education, because when I grew up in Austria - when I grew up in Austria I ha...

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We, Equality 7-2521, were not happy in those year in the Home of the Students. It was not that the l...

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As a student I learned from wonderful teachers and ever since then I've thought everyone is a teache...

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