“A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.”
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“We spend the first twelve months of our children's lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve telling them to sit down and shut up.”
“Teaching is the only major occupation of man for which we have not yet developed tools that make an average person capable of competence and performance. In teaching we rely on the 'naturals,' the ones who somehow know how to teach.”
“A teacher is a person who never says anything once.”
“I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.”
“None of us got where we are solely by pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps. We got here because somebody - a parent, a teacher, an Ivy League crony or a few nuns - bent down and helped us pick up our boots.”
“Study how water flows in a valley stream, smoothly and freely between the rocks. Also learn from holy books and wise people. Everything - even mountains, rivers, plants and trees - should be your teacher.”
“Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.”
“A professor is someone who talks in someone else's sleep.”
“Excellence is a better teacher than mediocrity. The lessons of the ordinary are everywhere. Truly profound and original insights are to be found only in studying the exemplary.”
“I cannot emphasize enough the importance of a good teacher.”
“A good teacher, like a good entertainer first must hold his audience's attention, then he can teach his lesson.”
“Only one person in a million becomes enlightened without a teacher's help.”
“Let's reintroduce corporal punishment in the schools - and use it on the teachers.”
“We can teach a lot of things, but if the teacher can't relate by talking to a group of friendly students, he'll never be a competent teacher.”
“Prosperity is a great teacher adversity a greater.”
“A teacher affects eternity he can never tell where his influence stops.”
“A true teacher defends his students against his own personal influences.”
“Advice is sometimes transmitted more successfully through a joke than grave teaching.”
“The most important part of teaching is to teach what it is to know.”
“For the longest time, you just sound like a broken record, but you have to be consistent when teaching kids.”
“I would suggest that teachers show their students concrete examples of the negative effects of the actions that gangsta rappers glorify.”
“A self-taught man usually has a poor teacher and a worse student.”
“Suffering is one of life's great teachers.”