If
you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards
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It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and
knowledge.
-- Albert
Einstein *
Our schoolbooks glorify war and conceal its horrors. They indoctrinate children
with hatred. I would teach peace rather than war, love rather than hate."
-- Albert
Einstein “Teaching
should be such that what is offered is perceived as a valuable gift and not as
a hard duty.”
-- Albert
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"We must inoculate
our children against militarism, by educating them in the spirit of pacifism...
Our schoolbooks glorify war and conceal its horrors. They indoctrinate children
with hatred. I would teach peace rather than war, love rather than hate."
-- Albert
Einstein
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The great teacher
is not the man who supplies the most facts, but the one in whose presence we become
different people.
-- Ralph
Waldo Emerson The
secret of education is respecting the pupils.
-- Ralph
Waldo Emerson
“Be an opener
of doors for such as come after thee.”
-- Ralph
Waldo Emerson
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Be
careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of
the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant.
-- Epictetus
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I cannot be a teacher without
exposing who I am.
-- Paulo
Freire "The
teacher is no longer merely the-one-who-teaches, but one who is him/herself taught
in dialogue with the students, who in turn while being taught also teach. They
become jointly responsible for a process in which all grow."
-- Paulo
Freire When
we live our lives with the authenticity demanded by the practice of teaching that
is also learning and learning that is also teaching, we are participating in a
total experience…. In this experience the beautiful, the decent, and the serious
form a circle with hands joined."
-- Paulo
Freire |
"Although
the teachers or the students are not the same, the person in charge of education
is being formed or re-formed as he/she teaches, and the person who is being taught
forms him/herself in the process. …There is, in fact, no teaching without learning."
-- Paulo Freire
"To teach is
part of the very fabric of learning."
-- Paulo
Freire
"…
there is no valid teaching from which there does not emerge something learned
and through which the learner does not become capable of recreating and remaking
what has been taught."
-- Paulo
Freire
You
cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself.
--
Galielo Galilei
A
teacher is a compass that activates the magnets of curiosity, knowledge, and wisdom
in the pupils.
-- Eve Garrison
The
teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but
rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.
-- Kahlil Gibran
Teachers
are expected to reach unattainable goals with inadequate tools. The miracle is
that at times they accomplish this impossible task.
-- Haim G. Ginott
Good
teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
--Gail Godwin
Seldom
was any knowledge given to keep, but to impart; the grace of this rich jewel is
lost in concealment.
-- Bishop Hall
The
object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without his teacher.
-- Elbert Hubbard
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Education and the process
of educating is a total integral, contextual situation which includes students,
teachers, parents, administration and environment.
-- Jean
Huston |
'It must be remembered
that the purpose of education is not to fill the minds of students with facts...
it is to teach them to think, if that is possible, and always to think for themselves.'
-- Robert Maynard
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He
that teaches us anything which we knew not before is undoubtedly to be reverenced
as a master.
-- Samuel Johnson
To
teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert
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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