Teacher Quotes - Page 8

• Don't let anyone tell you that standardized tests are not accurate measures. The truth of the matter is they offer a remarkably precise method for gauging the size of the houses near the school where the test was administered.

  Alfie Kohn

  Education, School, House

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• If children are apparently unable to learn, we should assume that we have not as yet found the right way to teach them.

  Marie Clay

  Education, Children, Learning

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• Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.

  B. F. Skinner

  Graduation, Education, Money

  New Scientist 21 May 1964

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• There are many teachers who could ruin you. Before you know it you could be a pale copy of this teacher or that teacher. You have to evolve on your own.

  Berenice Abbott

  Inspirational, Ruins, Pale

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• Teaching is the only major occupation of man for which we have not yet developed tools that make an average person capable of competence and performance. In teaching we rely on the 'naturals,' the ones who somehow know how to teach.

  Peter Drucker

  Retirement, Teaching, Average

  Peter Drucker (2017). “The Age of Discontinuity: Guidelines to Our Changing Society”, p.310, Routledge

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• A teacher of fear can't bring peace on earth. We have been trying to do it that way for thousands of years. The person who turns inner violence around, the person who finds peace inside and lives it, is the one who teaches what true peace is. We are waiting for just one teacher. You're the one.

  Byron Katie

  Peace, Fear, Years

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• We now accept the fact that learning is a lifelong process of keeping abreast of change. And the most pressing task is to teach people how to learn.

  Peter Drucker

  Change, Educational, Teaching

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• The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.

  Robert M. Hutchins

  Life, Education, Appreciation

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• A child miseducated is a child lost.

  John F. Kennedy

  Education, Children, Teaching

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• Everywhere I go, I'm asked if I think the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a best seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Education, Women, Teaching

  Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose "The Nature and Aims of Fiction" (1969)

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• The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education.

  Plutarch

  Education, Appreciation, Honesty

  "Moralia". Book by Plutarch. Chapter "The Education of Children",

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• If a teacher does not involve himself, his values, his commitments, in the course of discussion, why should the students?

  Paul Wellstone

  Teaching, Commitment, Doe

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• He most honors my style who learns under it to destroy the teacher.

  Walt Whitman

  Style, Honor

  Walt Whitman (2012). “Leaves of Grass: The Original 1855 Edition”, p.64, Courier Corporation

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• To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul.

  Muriel Spark

  Soul, Great Education, Pupils

  'The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie' (1961) ch. 2

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• Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.

  Hector Berlioz

  Life, Music, Death

  "About Time: Einstein's Unfinished Revolution". Book by Paul Davies, 1996.

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• The man (or woman) who can make hard things easy is the educator.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Powerful, Teaching, Learning

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• Seldom was any knowledge given to keep, but to impart; the grace of this rich jewel is lost in concealment.

  Joseph Hall

  Appreciation, Knowledge, Science

  Joseph Hall (1837). “The Works of Joseph Hall DD Successively Bishop of Exeter and Norwich: With Some Account of His Life and Sufferings”, p.82

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• More important than the curriculum is the question of the methods of teaching and the spirit in which the teaching is given

  Bertrand Russell

  Educational, Teaching, Important

  Bertrand Russell (2014). “On Education”, p.181, Routledge

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• If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.

  Tryon Edwards

  Education, Teaching, Knowledge

  Tryon Edwards (2015). “The New Dictionary of Thoughts”, p.717, Ravenio Books

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• The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life.

  Plato

  Graduation, Education, Appreciation

  Plato, Julius A. Sigler (1997). “Education: Ends and Means”, p.12, University Press of America

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• The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves.

  Helen Keller

  Cheer, Teaching, Being Alone

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

  Walter Bagehot

  Fear, Teaching, Should Have

  Walter Bagehot (1910). “Literary Studies (Miscellaneous Essays): Hartley Coleridge. Shakespeare, the man. William Cowper. The first Edinburgh reviewers. Edward Gibbon. Percy Bysshe Shelley”

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• Don't try to fix the students, fix ourselves first. The good teacher makes the poor student good and the good student superior. When our students fail, we, as teachers, too, have failed.

  Marva Collins

  Education, Teaching, Learning

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• Vadim was both my teacher and my husband. I placed myself entirely in his hands.

  Brigitte Bardot

  Husband, Hands, My Husband

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• Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know.

  Daniel J. Boorstin

  Funny, Education, Witty

  "A Case of Hypochondria". Newsweek, July 6, 1970.

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