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
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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 Einstein
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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
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"To
teach is part of the very fabric of learning."
-- Paulo Freire
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"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
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
"…
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
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"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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