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If you're teaching a class, you can think about the elementary things that you know very well. These things are kind of fun and delightful. It doesn't do any harm to think them over again. Is there a better way to present them? The elementary things are easy to think about; if you can't think of a new thought, no harm done; what you thought about it before is good enough for the class. If you do think of something new, you're rather pleased that you have a new way of looking at it.The questions of the students are often the source of new research. They often ask profound questions that I've thought about at times and then given up on, so to speak, for a while. It wouldn't do me any harm to think about them again and see if I can go any further now. The students may not be able to see the thing I want to answer, or the subtleties I want to think about, but they remind me of a problem by asking questions in the neighborhood of that problem. It's not so easy to remind yourself of these things.
Richard Feynman, The Dignified P
Teaching isn't one-tenth as effective as training.
Horace Mann
The schoolmaster is abroad! And I trust to him armed with his primer against the soldier in full military array.
Jeremy Bentham
Unless we do his teachings, we do not demonstrate faith in him.
Ezra Taft Benson
A schoolteacher or professor cannot educate individuals, he educates only species.
G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenb
Most subjects at universities are taught for no other purpose than that they may be re-taught when the students become teachers.
I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
Socrates
No one ever teaches well who wants to teach, or governs well who wants to govern.
Plato
Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each.
A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
Thomas Carruthers
The teacher must derive not only the capacity, but the desire, to observe natural phenomena. In our system, she must become a passive, much more than an active, influence, and her passivity shall be composed of anxious scientific curiosity and of absolute respect for the phenomenon which she wishes to observe. The teacher must understand and feel her position of observer: the activity must lie in the phenomenon.
Maria Montessori
If you are happy with the way things are in the schools, and your children are happy and fulfilled, fine. I'm glad you are happy, and that the schools are doing what you want them to for you. But there are lots of people out there who are very unhappy, and it's to those people that I'm offering this other choice, and saying that they don't have to just accept what's imposed on them. It takes a lot of determination, and some hard work, but you can teach your own!
John Holt
The truth is that the average schoolmaster, on all the lower levels, is and always must be essentially and next door to an idiot, for how can one imagine an intelligent man engaging in so puerile an avocation?
H. L. Mencken
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.
H. Ross Perot
To teach successfully we must tell all we know, but only what is adaptable to the student.
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I am not willing that this discussion should close without mention of the value of a true teacher. Give me a log hut, with only a simple bench, Mark Hopkins on one end and I on the other, and you may have all the buildings, apparatus and libraries without him.
James Garfield, Address to Willi
In teaching others we teach ourselves.
Proverb
To teach well, we need not say all that we know, Successful teachers are effective in spite of the psychological theories they suffer under.
Never offer to teach a fish to swim.
He who does not research has nothing to teach.
