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(137 votes)   ...what thwarts us and demands of us the greatest effort is also what can teach us most.

Matthew Arnold

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(137 votes)   Learning is finding out what you already know, Doing is demonstrating that you know it, Teaching is reminding others that they know it as well as you do. We are all learners, doers, and teachers.

Richard David Bach

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(128 votes)   A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.

Thomas Carruthers

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(106 votes)   The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-distrust. He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him. He will have no disciple.

Amos Bronson Alcott

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(100 votes)   A poor surgeon hurts 1 person at a time. A poor teacher hurts 130.

Ernest Leroy Boyer

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(91 votes)   The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.

Sydney Harris

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(80 votes)   You can teach a student a lesson for a day; but if you can teach him to learn by creating curiosity, he will continue the learning process as long as he lives.

Clay P. Bedford

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(73 votes)   Anglo-Saxon civilization has taught the individual to protect his own rights; American civilization will teach him to respect the rights of others.

William Jennings Bryan

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(70 votes)   Teaching should be such that what is offered is perceived as a valuable gift and not as a hard duty.

Albert Einstein

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(69 votes)   If a doctor, lawyer, or dentist had 40 people in his office at one time, all of whom had different needs, and some of whom didn't want to be there and were causing trouble, and the doctor, lawyer, or dentist, without assistance, had to treat them all with professional excellence for nine months, then he might have some conception of the classroom teacher's job.

Donald D. Quinn

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(66 votes)   Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom

George Washington Carver

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(56 votes)   I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness and the willingness to remain vulnerable.

Joseph Addison

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(52 votes)   Believe nothing merely because you have been told it. Do not believe what your teacher tells you merely out of respect for the teacher. But whatsoever, after due examination and analysis, you find to be kind, conducive to the good, the benefit, the welfare of all beings -- that doctrine believe and cling to, and take it as your guide

Buddha

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(51 votes)   Who dares to teach must never cease to learn.

John Cotton Dana

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(49 votes)   A professor is one who talks in someone else's sleep.

W. H. Auden

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