“It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.”
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“In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.”
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“Those who know how to think need no teachers.”
“You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room.”
“After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books.”
“In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something else.”
“The smarter the journalists are, the better off society is. For to a degree, people read the press to inform themselves - and the better the teacher, the better the student body.”
“Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.”
“I've learned that mistakes can often be as good a teacher as success.”
“If you think your teacher is tough, wait until you get a boss. He doesn't have tenure.”
“The teacher is the one who gets the most out of the lessons, and the true teacher is the learner.”
“I wanted to be a teacher. I love children, so I wanted to deal with children. Then I wanted to be a veterinarian. But by the age of ten or eleven, when I opened my mouth and said, 'Oh, God, what's this?' I kind of knew teaching and being a veterinarian were gonna have to wait.”
“Money is such an amazing teacher: What you choose to do with your money shows whether you are truly powerful or powerless.”
“The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.”
“I had a terrible education. I attended a school for emotionally disturbed teachers.”
“Experience is the teacher of all things.”
“Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.”
“I have long enjoyed the friendship and companionship of Republicans because I am by instinct a teacher, and I would like to teach them something.”
“If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself.”
“Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.”
“A child's learning is a function more of the characteristics of his classmates than those of the teacher.”
“Love is a better teacher than duty.”
“I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.”
“What a blind person needs is not a teacher but another self.”
“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.”