"Teaching
kids to count is fine, but teaching them what counts
is best."
- Bob Talbert
When
you teach your son, you teach your son's son.
-- The Talmud
It’s
what you learn after you know it all that counts.
-- Harry S. Truman
The
art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.
-- Mark Van Doren
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The
teacher that I was for decades, and that I still
am in a certain way, wondered what was meant by
the word education. I was truly dumbfounded at the
very thought of dealing with such an essential and
extensive subject.
-- Abdoulaye Wade
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The
mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The
superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward
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The
most important part of teaching is to teach what
it is to know.
-- Simone Weil
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I
saw as a teacher how, if you take that spark of
learning that those children have, and you ignite
it, you can take a child from any background to
a lifetime of creativity and accomplishment.
-- Paul Wellstone
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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
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“Teaching
is the greatest act of optimism”
-- Colleen Wilcox
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For
everyone of us that succeeds, it's because there's
somebody there to show you the way out. The light
doesn't always necessarily have to be in your
family; for me it was teachers and school.
-- Oprah Winfrey
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Mama
was my greatest teacher, a teacher of compassion,
love and fearlessness. If love is sweet as a flower,
then my mother is that sweet flower of love.
-- Stevie Wonder
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One
good teacher in a lifetime may sometimes change a delinquent
into a solid citizen.
-- Philip Wylie
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