Teachers

(318 votes)   We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled, but as candles to be lit.

Robert H. Shaffer

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(261 votes)   Your Master Teacher knows all you need to learn, the perfect timing for your learning it, and the ideal way of teaching it to you. You don't create a Master Teacher -- that's already been done. You discover your Master Teacher.

Peter Mcwilliams
American Author of ''Life 101''

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

Thomas Carruthers

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(242 votes)   When you introduce a moral lesson, let it be brief.

Horace
BC 65-8, Italian Poet

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(179 votes)   Morality sticks faster when presented in brief sayings than when presented in long discourse.

Immermann

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(149 votes)   Teaching isn't one-tenth as effective as training.

Horace Mann
1796-1859, American Educator

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(140 votes)   In teaching others we teach ourselves.

Proverbs

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(126 votes)   Housework is a breeze. Cooking is a pleasant diversion. Putting up a retaining wall is a lark. But teaching is like climbing a mountain.

Fawn M. Brodie
1915-1981, American Biographer

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(120 votes)   To teach successfully we must tell all we know, but only what is adaptable to the student.

La Harpe

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(118 votes)   I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.

Socrates
BC 469-399, Greek Philosopher of Athens

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

John Cotton Dana

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(108 votes)   There is no human reason why a child should not admire and emulate his teacher's ability to do sums, rather than the village bum's ability to whittle sticks and smoke cigarettes. The reason why the child does not is plain enough -- the bum has put himself on an equality with him and the teacher has not.

Floyd Dell

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(107 votes)   In the education of children there is nothing like alluring the interest and affection, otherwise you only make so many asses laden with books.

Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
1533-1592, French Philosopher, Essayist

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(107 votes)   Teaching is of more importance than urging.

Martin Luther
1483-1546, German Leader of the Protestant Reformation

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(106 votes)   The first duty of a lecturer is to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up between the pages of your notebooks and keep on the mantelpiece forever.

Virginia Woolf
1882-1941, British Novelist, Essayist

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