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    The first duty of a lecturer--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 mantlepiece forever.

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If you be a lover of instruction, you will be well instructed.

If you be a lover of instruction, you will be well instructed.

by Isocrates Found in: Teaching Quotes,
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Example isn't another way to teach, it is the only way to teach.

Example isn't another way to teach, it is the only way to teach.

by Charles M. Dickinson Found in: Teaching Quotes,
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There is no teaching until the pupil is brought into the same
state or principle in which you are; read more

There is no teaching until the pupil is brought into the same
state or principle in which you are; a transfusion takes place;
he is you, and you are he; there is a teaching; and by no
unfriendly chance or bad company can he ever quite lose the
benefit.

by Ralph Waldo Emerson Found in: Teaching Quotes,
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A high-school teacher, afer all, is a person deputized by the rest of us to explain to the young what read more

A high-school teacher, afer all, is a person deputized by the rest of us to explain to the young what sort of world they are living in, and to defend, if possible, the part their elders are playing in it.

by Emile Capouya Found in: Teaching Quotes,
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He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.

He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.

by George Bernard Shaw Found in: Teaching Quotes,
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It is by teaching that we teach ourselves, by relating that we observe, by affirming that we examine, by showing read more

It is by teaching that we teach ourselves, by relating that we observe, by affirming that we examine, by showing that we look, by writing that we think, by pumping that we draw water into the well.

by Henri Frederic Amiel Found in: Teaching Quotes,
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What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.

What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.

by George Bernard Shaw Found in: Teaching Quotes,
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A boy is better unborn than untaught.

A boy is better unborn than untaught.

by James Anthony Froude Found in: Teaching Quotes,
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It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative
expression and knowledge.

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

by Charles M. Dickinson Found in: Teaching Quotes,
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