teacher

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Children should be led into the right paths, not by severity, but by persuasion.

- Terence

2.

Why not whip the teacher when the pupil misbehaves?

- Diogenes of Sinope

3.

Knowledge exists to be imparted.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

4.

A schoolteacher or professor cannot educate individuals, he educates only species.

- Lichtenberg, Georg C.

5.

He most honors my style who learns under it to destroy the teacher.

- Whitman, Walt

6.

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.

- Alcott, Amos Bronson

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In later life, as in earlier, only a few persons influence the formation of our character; the multitude pass us by like a distant army. One friend, one teacher, one beloved, one club, one dining table, one work table are the means by which one's nation and the spirit of one's nation affect the individual.

- Jean Paul Richter

8.

Those who go to college and never get out are called professors.

- Givot, George

9.

Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lessons afterwards.

- Vernon Law

10.

The teacher must derive not only the capacity, but the desire, to observe natural phenomena. The teacher must understand and feel her position of observer: the activity must lie in the phenomenon.

- Maria Montessori

11.

No one ever teaches well who wants to teach, or governs well who wants to govern.

- Plato

12.

The secret of teaching is to appear to have known all your life what you just learned this morning.

13.

FORCE, n. "Force is but might," the teacher said -- "That definition's just." The boy said naught but through instead, Remembering his pounded head: "Force is not might but must!"

- Ambrose Bierce

14.

Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.

- Barzun, Jacques

15.

There is no accountability in the public school system - except for coaches. You know what happens to a losing coach. You fire him. A losing teacher can go on losing for 30 years and then go to glory.

- Ross Perot

16.

Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.

- C. S. Lewis

17.

Quite frankly, teachers are the only profession that teach our children.

- Dan Quayle

18.

A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.

- Henry Adams

19.

I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; Yet strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.

- Kahlil Gibron

20.

Teaching isn't one-tenth as effective as training.

- Mann, Horace