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... good teachers, like Tolstoy's happy families, are alike everywhere.
...I don't think my church's teachings were incorrect, just incomplete.
I just had to plod along without having any teaching, which was a pity.
We don't teach kids how to feel, we don't give them the words to go by.
Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre.
What a teacher doesn't say...is a telling part of what a student hears.
It is not enough to have a good mind. The main thing is to use it well.
Teaching is the last refuge of feeble minds with a classical education.
The teacher is one who makes two ideas grow where only one grew before.
The need here is professional closeness tempered by emotional distance.
I am now half Asian. I have learned all the ancient teachings of Buddi.
I am immersed in architecture all day, working in my office or teaching.
It is not so important to have all the answers as to be hungry for them.
I think it likely that some of my pupils will reach unusual distinction.
Education helps you earn more. But not many schoolteachers can prove it.
Of all the hard jobs around, one of the hardest is being a good teacher.
There should not be any particular teaching. Teaching is in each moment.
Teach us delight in simple things, and mirth that has no bitter springs.
Ask yourself: 'Do I feel the need to laminate?' Then teaching is for you.
Last time I was in Jamaica I financed a teacher to teach in an orphanage.
I'd been very partial to Malcolm X, particularly his self-help teachings.
All learning begins when our comfortable ideas turn out to be inadequate.
When a woman gets the idea of justice, there's no teaching her any sense.
Every piece of the puzzle that doesn't fit gets you closer to the answer.
If philosophy begins in wonder, pedagogy typically begins in frustration.
Let those who will write the nation's laws, if I can write its textbooks.
There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.
It was God who made me so beautiful. If I weren't, then I'd be a teacher.
People whose talents are not exploited become disenchanted and disruptive.
The mind aware of itself is a pilot... vastly freer than a passenger mind.
A writer must teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid.
The teachers of this country, one may say, have its future in their hands.
The most fruitful and worthwhile thing I have ever done has been to teach.
Truth can never be reached by just listening to the voice of an authority.
If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.
The most powerful teaching of children is by the example of their parents.
I think you're not really teaching anyone unless you're learning yourself.
We should not teach children the sciences; but give them a taste for them.
Only one person in a million becomes enlightened without a teacher's help.
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
You have summoned me in my weakness. You must sustain me in your strength.
Oh, this is going to be fun; he actually thinks he's teaching me something.
I think retirement beats the heck out of life after death, that's for sure.
The infinite in mathematics is always unruly unless it is properly treated.
The good teacher makes the poor student good and the good student superior.
I expect a zombie to show up on Sesame Street soon, teaching kids to count.
It is the parents duty to intervene when they see wrong choices being made.
The relation between parents and children is essentially based on teaching.
Everything works when the teacher works. It's as easy as that, and as hard.
Teaching school is but another word for sure and not very slow destruction.