| "The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires." »William Arthur Ward |
| "Benevolence alone will not make a teacher, nor will learning alone do it. The gift of teaching is a peculiar talent, and implies a need and a craving in the teacher himself." »John Jay Chapman |
| "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 |
| "Believe nothing merely because you have been told it. Do not believe what your teacher tells you merely out of respect for the teacher. But whatsoever, after due examination and analysis, you find to be kind, conducive to the good, the benefit, the welfare of all beings -- that doctrine believe and cling to, and take it as your guide." »Buddha |
| "The role of the teacher remains the highest calling of a free people. To the teacher, America entrusts her most precious resource, her children and asks that they be prepared ... to face the rigors of individual participation in a democratic society." »Shirley Mount Hufstedler |
| "Sometimes you have to be careful when selecting a new nickname for yourself. For instance, let's say you have chosen the nickname 'Fly head'. Normally, you would think that 'Fly head' would mean a person who had beautiful swept-back features, as if flying though the air. But think again. Couldn't it also mean 'having a head like a fly' I'm afraid some people might actually think that." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts |
| "Passive acceptance of the teacher's wisdom is easy to most boys and girls. It involves no effort of independent thought, and seems rational because the teacher knows more than his pupils it is moreover the way to win the favour of the teacher unless he is a very exceptional man. Yet the habit of passive acceptance is a disastrous one in later life. It causes man to seek and to accept a leader, and to accept as a leader whoever is established in that position." »Bertrand Russell |
| "Stuart Would ya look at the size of that kid's head It's the size of a planetoid and it has it's own weather system Looks like an orange on a toothpick I'm not kidding, that boy's head is like Sputnik spherical but quite pointy at parts He'll be crying himself to sleep tonight, on his huge pillow." »So I Married an Axe Murderer |
| "While technically I did not commit a crime, an impeachable offense... these are legalisms, as far as the handling of this matter is concerned it was so botched up, I made so many bad judgments. The worst ones, mistakes of the heart, rather than the head. But let me say, a man in that top job - he's got to have a heart, but his head must always rule his heart." »Richard Milhous Nixon |
| "Nicky I think in all fairness, I should explain to you exactly what it is that I do. For instance tomorrow morning ill get up nice and early, take a walk down over to the bank and... walk in and see and uh... if you don't have my money for me, I'll... crack your f***in' head wide-open in front of everybody in the bank. And just about the time I'm comin' out of jail, hopefully, you'll be coming out of your coma. And guess what I'll split your f***in' head open again. 'Cause I'm f***in' stupid. I don't give a f*** about jail. That's my business. That's what I do." »Casino |
| "I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework." »Edith Ann |
| "The city is the teacher of the man." »Simondes of Ceos |
| "The teacher is like the candle which lights others in consuming itself." »Giovanni Ruffini |
| "Listen to life, it is the wisest teacher of all." »Unknown |
| "There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher." »Flannery O'Connor |
| "A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary." »Thomas Carruthers |
| ""Experience is the best teacher- Personal but also vicarious"" »Yassine Aumerally |
| "Whoever cares to learn will always find a teacher." »German proverb |
| "The teacher is one who makes two ideas grow where only one grew before." »Elbert Hubbard |
| "A teacher affects eternity he can never tell, where his influence stops." »Henry Adams |
| "Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils." »Hector Berlioz |
| "Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards." »Vernon Sanders Law |
| "Prosperity is a great teacher adversity a greater." »William Hazlitt |
| "A good teacher protects his pupils from his own influence." »Bruce Lee |
| "The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence." »Amos Bronson Alcott |
| "Experience is the worst teacher it gives the test before presenting the lesson." »Vernon Law |
| "A good teacher is a master of simplification and an enemy of simplism." »Louis A. Berman |
| "I've learned that I like my teacher because she cries when we sing Silent Night." »Child Age 7 |
| "Smartness runs in my family. When I went to school I was so smart my teacher was in my class for five years." »George Burns |
| "It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge." »Albert Einstein |
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