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You teach best what you most need to learn.
Richard Bach
Teaching that begins with questions is both a moral and a pedagogical choice. A teacher teaches with questions because she or he believes that it is a better way to teach, and a better way to be a teacher. Yet to succeed at this, the questions must be real questions: questions that puzzle, confuse, and interest.http://www.ed.uiuc.edu/EPS/PES-yearbook/97_docs/burbules.html
Nicholas C. Burbles, essay: Apor
We think of our efficient teachers with a sense of recognition, but those who touched our humanity we remember with gratitude. Learning is the essential mineral, but warmth is the life-element for the child's soul, no less than for the growing plant.
Carl Gustav Jung, The Gifted Chi
Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.
Soren Kierkegaard
When will the public cease to insult the teacher's calling with empty flattery? When will men who would never for a moment encourage their own sons to enter the work of the public schools cease to tell us that education is the greatest and noblest of all human callings?
William C. Bagley, Craftmanship
Your Master Teacher knows all you need to learn, the perfect timing for your learning it, and the ideal way of teaching it to you. You don't create a Master Teacher -- that's already been done. You discover your Master Teacher.
Peter McWilliams
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.
Amos Bronson Alcott
He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.
George Bernard Shaw
Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.
Will Durant
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, Memories and M
I am sure it is one's duty as a teacher to try to show boys that no opinions, no tastes, no emotions are worth much unless they are one's own. I suffered acutely as a boy from the lack of being shown this.
A. C. Benson, The Upton Letters
No other job in the world could possibly dispossess one so completely as this job of teaching. You could stand all day in a laundry, for instance, still in possession of your mind. But this teaching utterly obliterates you. It cuts right into your being: essentially, it takes over your spirit. It drags it out from where it would hide.
Sylvia AshtonWarner, Spinster
Once she knows how to read there's only one thing you can teach her to believe in and that is herself.
Virginia Woolf
The teacher gives not of his wisdom, but rather of his faith and lovingness.
Kahlil Gibran
Well had the boding tremblers learned to trace the day's disasters in his morning face.
Oliver Goldsmith
To teach a man how he may learn to grow independently, and for himself, is perhaps the greatest service that one man can do another.
Benjamin Jowett
Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.
Jacques Barzun
To be good is noble, but to teach others how to be good is nobler and less trouble.
Mark Twain
Once more I would adopt the graver style -- a teacher should be sparing of his smile.
William Cowper
A professor is one who talks in someone else's sleep.
W. H. Auden
