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Teachers
who educated children deserved more honour than parents who merely gave
them birth; for bare life is furnished by the one, the other ensures a
good life.
Attributed to Aristotle
To
teach is to learn.
Chinese proverb
The
first step in the acquisition of wisdom is silence, the second listening,
the third memory, the fourth practice,
the fifth teaching others.
Solomon Ibn Gabriol
I'm
not a teacher, but an awakener.
Robert Frost
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
A
master can tell you what he expects of you.
A teacher, though, awakens your own expectations.
Patricia Neal
A
teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.
Henry Brooks Adams
The
aim of education should be teaching us how to think,
rather than what to think.
James Beatti
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-Frédéric Amiel
My
love is thine to teach; teach it but how,
And thou shalt see how apt it is to learn
Any hard lesson that may do thee good.
William Shakespeare
I
hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Chinese Proverb
The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.
Mark Van Doren
What
nobler employment, or more valuable to the state,
than that of the man who instructs the rising generation?
Cicero
The
successful teacher is no longer on a height, pumping knowledge at high
pressure into passive receptacles....He is a senior student anxious to
help his juniors.
William Osler
The
object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without a teacher.
Elbert Hubbard
Who
dares teach must never cease to learn.
John Cotton Dana
Teaching
is not a lost art but the regard for it is a lost tradition.
Jacques Barzun
If
a man keeps cherishing his old knowledge, so as continually be acquiring
new, he may be a teacher of others.
Confucius
My
joy in learning is partly that it enable me to teach.
Seneca
Teachers
believe they have a gift for giving; it drives them with the same irrepressible
drive that drives others to create a work of art or a market or a building.
A Bartlett Giamatt
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