“It is by teaching that we teach ourselves, by relating that we observe, by affirming that we examine, by showing that we look, by writing that we think, by pumping that we draw water into the well.”
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“When I was in junior high school, the teachers voted me the student most likely to end up in the electric chair.”
“When people lack teachers, their tendencies are not corrected when they do not have ritual and moral principles, then their lawlessness is not controlled.”
“The five steps in teaching an employee new skills are preparation, explanation, showing, observation and supervision.”
“I wanted to be a teacher, but I was a lousy student, one of the slowest readers. It was a tremendous struggle. But I'm lucky I had some teachers who saw something in me.”
“TV is bigger than any story it reports. It's the greatest teaching tool since the printing press.”
“The thing I loved the most - and still love the most about teaching - is that you can connect with an individual or a group, and see that individual or group exceed their limits.”
“Every man who rises above the common level has received two educations: the first from his teachers the second, more personal and important, from himself.”
“Nearly everyone I met, worked with, or read about was my teacher, one way or another.”
“That is the difference between good teachers and great teachers: good teachers make the best of a pupil's means great teachers foresee a pupil's ends.”
“If I can make a teacher's salary doing comedy, I think that's better than being a teacher.”
“I had a ninth grade teacher who told me I was much smarter and much better than I was allowing myself to be.”
“A teacher should have maximal authority, and minimal power.”
“To this end the greatest asset of a school is the personality of the teacher.”
“I was lucky that I met the right mentors and teachers at the right moment.”
“There is no teacher, living or past, who can give us the actual understanding of Truth. A teacher can only put our feet upon the path and point the way. That is all. It is wholly dependent on the individual to make his way to Truth.”
“We may have forgotten how to feel. Nobody is teaching us how to live happily ever after, as we've heard in fairy tales.”
“A hallmark of the Latino community is to help one another, if students are interested in a way to give back and help their communities, becoming a teacher is probably one of the very best ways of doing that.”
“We should not run away from religious teachings. We should run to them.”
“It was God who made me so beautiful. If I weren't, then I'd be a teacher.”
“You know how to tell if the teacher is hung over? Movie Day.”
“We expert teachers know that motivation and emotional impact are what matter.”
“The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.”
“The true aim of everyone who aspires to be a teacher should be, not to impart his own opinions, but to kindle minds.”