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Teacher Quotes
On teaching, mentorship, and lasting impact.
Alongside a personal memory of teaching mythology in college, several quotes cite research on how a single effective teacher changes a student's odds of finishing school. For lighter material, see Jokes.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I will venture to maintain that where the teacher is not pleasing to the pupil, there is no education.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
Therefore, a person should first be changed by a teacher's instructions, and guided by principles of ritual. Only then can he observe the rules of courtesy and humility, obey the conventions and rules of society, and achieve order.
- People
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When people lack teachers, their tendencies are not corrected; when they do not have ritual and moral principles, then their lawlessness is not controlled.
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I have long enjoyed the friendship and companionship of Republicans because I am by instinct a teacher, and I would like to teach them something.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had a terrible education. I attended a school for emotionally disturbed teachers.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's one thing to be sitting in a classroom and have a teacher tell you how to treat other people; it's a whole other thing to watch, week after week, somebody's life spelled out to you in an emotional way: That lesson is something that will stay with you forever.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never had a teacher, and I never had lessons, other than hard Nature itself.
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Yes, my teacher is the cold.
- Nov 07, 2020
The best came from my martial arts teacher, who also taught Elvis. He said, 'Your ego will get you killed.'
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
The teacher's life should have three periods, study until twenty-five, investigation until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I would have him retired on a double allowance.
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- Nov 07, 2020
No bubble is so iridescent or floats longer than that blown by the successful teacher.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
As any parent, teacher, or librarian knows, there is no richer experience than to see children's faces light up at the suspense of a new tale or the surprise of a new poem. The uninhibited joy with which they listen is surely akin to that of adult audiences of old around campfire and hearth.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
The parents have a right to say that no teacher paid by their money shall rob their children of faith in God and send them back to their homes skeptical, or infidels, or agnostics, or atheists.
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- Nov 07, 2020