Teaching Quotes

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  It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Dance, Education

  Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.52, St. Martin's Press

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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'.

  Dan Rather

  Thank You, Education, Dream

  Dan Rather (1984). “The Camera Never Blinks”, Ballantine Books

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• What a teacher doesn't say...is a telling part of what a student hears.

  Maurice Natanson

  Education, Teacher, Students

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• Every truth has four corners: as a teacher I give you one corner, and it is for you to find the other three.

  Confucius

  Inspirational, Education, Teacher

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  What is a teacher? I'll tell you: it isn't someone who teaches something, but someone who inspires the student to give of her best in order to discover what she already knows.

  Paulo Coelho

  Inspiring, Teacher, Order

  "The Witch of Portobello". Book by Paulo Coelho, 2007.

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• What the teacher is, is more important than what he teaches.

  Karl A. Menninger

  Teacher, Appreciation, Retirement

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• Learning is a matter of intensity not elapsed time.

  Tom Peters

  Learning, Matter, Intensity

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• In learning you will teach, and in teaching you will learn.

  Phil Collins

  Inspirational, Education, Teacher

  Song: Son Of Man

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  Learning never exhausts the mind.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Inspirational, Education, Learning

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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.

  John Steinbeck

  Inspirational, Education, Teacher

  John Steinbeck (2003). “America and Americans and Selected Nonfiction”, p.123, Penguin

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• The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Inspirational, Education, Travel

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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

  Thank You, Education, Thankful

  Carl Gustav Jung (1970). “The development of personality”

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• Teaching should be such that what is offered is perceived as a valuable gift and not as a hard duty.

  Albert Einstein

  Teacher, Educational, Learning

  Albert Einstein (2010). “Ideas And Opinions”, p.67, Broadway Books

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• Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.

  Oscar Wilde

  Inspirational, Funny, Sarcastic

  Oscar Wilde (2014). “The Wit and Wisdom of Oscar Wilde”, p.127, Courier Corporation

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• Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves.

  Ernest Dimnet

  Inspirational, Education, Children

  Ernest Dimnet (1954). “The Art of Thinking”, p.36, Prabhat Prakashan

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• Good teaching is more a giving of right questions than a giving of right answers.

  Josef Albers

  Inspirational, Education, Appreciation

  Josef Albers (2006). “Interaction of Color”, p.70, Yale University Press

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• If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it.

  Margaret Fuller

  Inspirational, Positive, Education

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• To know how to suggest is the art of teaching.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Teacher, Art, Educational

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• There are obviously two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live.

  James Truslow Adams

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

  James Truslow Adams (1930). “A Searchlight on America”, London : Routledge

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• Children learn more from what you are than what you teach.

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  Teacher, Peace, Children

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

  George Bernard Shaw

  Education, Witty, Teacher

  Man and Superman "Maxims for Revolutionists" (1903). A further extension appears in Jacob M. Braude, Speaker's Encyclopedia of Stories, Quotations, and Anecdotes (1955): "Those who can, do; those who can't teach; and those who can't do anything at all, teach the teachers."

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  Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.

  Xunzi

  Inspiring, Leadership, Teacher

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• Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.

  Will Durant

  Change, Graduation, Education

  "Books: The Great Gadfly". "TIME" Magazine, October 8, 1965.

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  The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.

  Michelangelo

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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• Teach a child how to think, not what to think.

  Sidney Sugarman

  Education, Teacher, Children

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