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If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards

* It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.
-- Albert Einstein

* 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

"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

 

* 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

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

* Experience is a dear teacher, but fools will learn at no other.
-- Benjamin Franklin

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

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

"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

Education and the process of educating is a total integral, contextual situation which includes students, teachers, parents, administration and environment.
-- Jean Huston

* "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 Hutchins


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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