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    Excellence is a better teacher than mediocrity. The lessons of the ordinary are everywhere. Truly profound and original insights are to be found only in studying the exemplary.

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Instruction enlarges the natural powers of the mind.
[Lat., Doctrina sed vim promovet insitam.]

Instruction enlarges the natural powers of the mind.
[Lat., Doctrina sed vim promovet insitam.]

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Instruction does not prevent waste of time or mistakes; and
mistakes themselves are often the best teachers of all.

Instruction does not prevent waste of time or mistakes; and
mistakes themselves are often the best teachers of all.

by James Anthony Froude Found in: Teaching Quotes,
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My mother would say it is literally ghost writers
who come to me
(Tan is the author of what became read more

My mother would say it is literally ghost writers
who come to me
(Tan is the author of what became The Joy Luck Club).

by Amy Tan 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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You teach me baseball and I'll teach you relativity. . . . No we
must not. You will learn read more

You teach me baseball and I'll teach you relativity. . . . No we
must not. You will learn about relativity faster than I learn
baseball.

by Charles M. Dickinson Found in: Teaching Quotes,
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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 read more

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.

by Virginia Woolf Found in: Teaching Quotes,
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Sometimes questions are more important than answers.

Sometimes questions are more important than answers.

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The sounding jargon of the schools.

The sounding jargon of the schools.

by William Cowper Found in: Teaching Quotes,
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What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university read more

What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.

by Thomas Carlyle Found in: Teaching Quotes,
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