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A wisely chosen illustration is almost essential to fasten the truth upon the ordinary mind, and no teacher can afford to neglect this part of his preparation.
Howard Crosby
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 Hufstedler
My object will be, if possible, to form Christian men, for Christian boys I can scarcely hope to make.
Thomas Arnold
What office is there which involves more responsibility, which requires more qualifications, and which ought, therefore, to be more honorable, than that of teaching?
Harriet Martineau
Those who go to college and never get out are called professors.
George Givot
The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.
Mark Van Doren
Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.
Oscar Wilde
If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed; if in terms of ten years, plant trees; if in terms of 100 years, teach the people.
Confucius
Teaching is of more importance than urging.
Martin Luther
Good teaching must be slow enough so that it is not confusing, and fast enough so that it is not boring.
Sydney J. Harris
Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he will eat for the rest of his life.
Chinese Proverb
The first duty of a lecturer is 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 mantelpiece forever.
Virginia Woolf
You can't teach a hunter it's wrong to kill.
Hari Dass Baba
Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself.
Lessons of wisdom have the most power over us when they capture the heart through the groundwork of a story, which engages the passions.
Laurence Sterne
Arrogance, pedantry, and dogmatism... the occupational diseases of those who spend their lives directing the intellects of the young.
Henry S. Canby
It is easier for a tutor to command than to teach.
John Locke
