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It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in
creative expression and knowledge.
Albert Einstein
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Every
piece of marble has a statue in it waiting to be released by
a
person of sufficient skill to chip away the unnecessary
parts. Just
as the sculptor is to the marble, so is
education to the soul. It
releases it. For only
educated people are free people. You cannot
create a statue
by smashing the marble with a hammer, and you
cannot by the force
of arms release the spirit or the soul of people.
Confucius
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The
entire object of true education is to make people
not merely to do the right things, but to enjoy them;
not merely industrious, but to enjoy industry;
not merely learned, but to love knowledge;
not merely pure, but to love purity;
not merely just, but to hunger and thirst after justice.
John
Ruskin
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Teachers usually have no way
of knowing that they have made a difference in a
child's life,
even when
they have made a dramatic one. But for children who are
used to
thinking
of themselves as stupid or not worth talking to or as deserving
beatings, a good teacher
can provide an astonishing revelation. Good
teachers
put snags in the river of children
passing by, and over the years
they redirect
hundreds of lives.
Many people find it easy to imagine unseen webs of malevolent
conspiracy
in the world,
and they are not always wrong. But there is
also an innocence
that conspires to hold
humanity together, and it is made
of people who never
fully know the good that they have done.
Tracy Kidder
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To know how to suggest is the great art of teaching.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Teachers open the
door. You enter by yourself.
Chinese proverb
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A teacher
affects eternity; no one can tell
where his or her influence stops.
Henry Adams |
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A
teacher who can arouse a feeling for one single good action,
for one
single good poem, accomplishes more than he or she who
fills our memory with rows
on rows of natural objects,
classified with name and form.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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The
true teachers defend their pupils against their own personal influence.
They inspire self-trust. They guide their student's eyes from
themselves
to the
spirit that quickens them. They will have no disciple.
Amos
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The
prosperity of a country
depends not on the abundance
of its
revenues, nor on
the strength of its
fortifications, nor on the
beauty of its public
buildings; but it consists
in the number of
its
cultivated citizens,
its people of education,
enlightenment, and
character.
Martin
Luther
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You
cannot teach people anything; you can only
help them to find it within
themselves.
Galileo |
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I am not a
teacher: only a fellow-traveler of whom you
asked the way. I
pointed ahead--ahead of myself as well as of you.
George Bernard Shaw |
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A
teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil
with a
desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.
Horace Mann
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| Education should
be of value to men and women both as private individuals and as free,
self-reliant, and responsible members of the community to which they
belong. It should help them, as individuals, to grow in self-mastery
and personal depth, to develop wider and deeper appreciations, to acquire
an enthusiasm for hard work, to love good talk and good books, to delight
in the adventures of intellectual curiosity, to become fair-minded,
open-minded, and generous in all their human responses.
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Teachers can
change lives with just
the right mix of chalk and challenges.
Joyce A. Myers |
Teach the young
people how
to think, not what to think.
Sidney Sugarman
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If you plan for a
year, plant a seed. If for ten years, plant a tree.
If for a
hundred years, teach the people. When you sow a seed once,
you will
reap a single harvest. When you teach people, you will reap a
hundred harvests.
Kuan Chung
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Everyone who remembers his or
her own
educational experience
remembers teachers, not methods and techniques.
Sidney Hook
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One looks back with appreciation to
the brilliant teachers, but with
gratitude to those who touched our human
feelings. The curriculum
is so much necessary raw material, but
warmth is the
vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the
child.
Carl Jung
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A woman attended her 20-year high
school reunion. There she encountered her freshman year art teacher. She
told him that she decided to go to college as a result of his inspiration,
and that she was now an art professor at a large state university.
At the end of the evening's
festivities, the teacher searched out his former student, shook her hand and
said, "Thank you for saying those nice things about my teaching. You've
really made my day."
"You're welcome," said
the woman as she hugged him, "But let me thank you--you've made my
life!"
author unknown
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Teaching is the greatest act of optimism.
Colleen Wilcox
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We definitely
have the ability to be teachers ourselves.
We may not be qualified to teach algebra, but we certainly
can read a poem to a child (or even a friend!) and discuss
what it might mean to us. We can go through a book on
animals, looking at amazing pictures, learning ourselves by
reading captions as we "teach" someone else. We can listen
carefully as someone explains his or her ideas, helping that
person to clarify those ideas. There are many, many "teaching
moments" in every day, and if we keep our eyes and ears open,
we can recognize them and use them for all that they're worth.
And the more we do it, the more we learn ourselves,
and the better we get at it.
The most
important lessons in life rarely happen in a classroom.
But if we step back and think that we can't teach because we're
not "teachers," then we lose many opportunities to do many
wonderful things. And if we don't teach because we assume
that someone else will, then everyone loses.
tom walsh
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No
person can reveal to you aught but that which already
lies half asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.
The teachers who walk in the shadow of the temple, among their
followers, give not of their wisdom but rather of their faith and their
lovingness.
If they are indeed wise they do not bid you enter the house of their wisdom,
but rather lead you to the threshold of your own mind.
Khalil
Gibran
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Teaching is one of the most crucial, responsible, and
important professions--
since it consists of communicating knowledge and guiding the intellectual
development of men and women. The objective purpose of teaching is the
spread and communication of the right ideas, of intellectual values,
which means: the creation of a culture.
Ayn Rand
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In a completely rational
society the best of us would aspire to be teachers
and the rest of us would have to settle for something less, because passing
civilization along from one generation to the next ought to be the highest
honor and the highest responsibility anyone could have.
Lee Iacocca
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