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| A courage which looks easy and yet is rare; the courage of a teacher repeating day after day the same lessons - the least rewarded of all forms of courage | | Honore de Balzac | |
| A man should first direct himself in the way he should go. Only then should he instruct others. | | Buddha | |
| A teacher must believe in the value and interest of his subject as a doctor believes in health. | | Gilbert Highet | |
| A teacher who can arouse a feeling for one single good action, for one single good poem, accomplishes more than he who fills our memory with rows and rows of natural objects, classified with name and form | | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | |
| A wise teacher makes learning a joy; a rebellious teacher spouts foolishness | | Bible | |
| Acquire new knowledge whilst thinking over the old, and you may become a teacher of others. | | Confucius | |
| And they shall teach my people the difference between the holy and profane, and cause them to discern between the unclean and the clean | | Bible | |
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| Don't try to fix the students, fix ourselves first. The good teacher makes the poor student good and the good student superior. When our students fail, we, as teachers, too, have failed. | | Marva Collins | |
| Education can and should do much influence social, moral and intellectual discovery by stimulating critical attitudes of thought in the young | | George Bernard Shaw | |
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| Experience is the best teacher, but a fool will learn from no other. | | Benjamin Franklin | |
| Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre. | | Gail Godwin | |
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| I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit. | | John Steinbeck | |
| I keep six honest serving men: They taught me all I knew: Their names are What and Why and When and How and Where and Who | | Rudyard Kipling | |
| I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework. | | Lily Tomlin | |
| It is not possible for one to teach others who cannot teach his own family. | | Confucius | |
| It is strange that the years teach us patience; that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting. | | Elizabeth Taylor | |
| It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength. | | Maya Angelou | |
