"A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops."

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"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."

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"To know how to suggest is the great art of teaching. To attain it we must be able to guess what will interest; we must learn to read the childish soul as we might a piece of music. Then, by simply changing the key, we keep up the attraction and vary the song."

Amiel, Henri Frederic on Teachers and Teaching
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"The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching."

Aristotle on Teachers and Teaching
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"My object will be, if possible, to form Christian men, for Christian boys I can scarcely hope to make."

Arnold, Thomas on Teachers and Teaching
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"A professor is one who talks in someone else's sleep."

Auden, W. H. on Teachers and Teaching
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"You can't teach a hunter it's wrong to kill."

Baba, Hari Dass on Teachers and Teaching
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"You teach best what you most need to learn."

Bach, Richard on Teachers and Teaching
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"A schoolmaster should have an atmosphere of awe, and walk wonderingly, as if he was amazed at being himself."

Bagehot, Walter on Teachers and Teaching
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"I believe that every human soul is teaching something to someone nearly every minute here in mortality."

Ballard, M. Russell on Teachers and Teaching
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"Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition."

Barzun, Jacques on Teachers and Teaching
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"Unless we do his teachings, we do not demonstrate faith in him."

Benson, Ezra Taft on Teachers and Teaching
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"The schoolmaster is abroad! And I trust to him armed with his primer against the soldier in full military array."

Bentham, Jeremy on Teachers and Teaching
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"Life is amazing: and the teacher had better prepare himself to be a medium for that amazement."

Blishen, Edward on Teachers and Teaching
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"There is no real teacher who in practice does not believe in the existence of the soul, or in a magic that acts on it through speech."

Bloom, Allan on Teachers and Teaching
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"The world of knowledge takes a crazy turn when teachers themselves are taught to learn."

Brecht, Bertolt on Teachers and Teaching
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"Housework is a breeze. Cooking is a pleasant diversion. Putting up a retaining wall is a lark. But teaching is like climbing a mountain."

Brodie, Fawn M. on Teachers and Teaching
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"The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself."

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G. on Teachers and Teaching
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"Arrogance, pedantry, and dogmatism... the occupational diseases of those who spend their lives directing the intellects of the young."

Canby, Henry S. on Teachers and Teaching
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"A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary."

Carruthers, Thomas on Teachers and Teaching
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"First he wrought, and afterward he taught."

Chaucer, Geoffrey on Teachers and Teaching
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"A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher who is not teaching."

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"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 on Teachers and Teaching
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"Once more I would adopt the graver style -- a teacher should be sparing of his smile."

Cowper, William on Teachers and Teaching
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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."

Crosby, Howard on Teachers and Teaching
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"In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher."

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"Who dares to teach must never cease to learn."

Dana, John Cotton on Teachers and Teaching
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"There is no human reason why a child should not admire and emulate his teacher's ability to do sums, rather than the village bum's ability to whittle sticks and smoke cigarettes. The reason why the child does not is plain enough -- the bum has put himself on an equality with him and the teacher has not."

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"The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery."

Doren, Mark Van on Teachers and Teaching
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"Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn."

Durant, William J. on Teachers and Teaching
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"The real difficulty, the difficulty which has baffled the sages of all times, is rather this: how can we make our teaching so potent in the motional life of man, that its influence should withstand the pressure of the elemental psychic forces in the individual?"

Einstein, Albert on Teachers and Teaching
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"It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge."

Einstein, Albert on Teachers and Teaching
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"The man who can make hard things easy is the educator."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on Teachers and Teaching
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"Knowledge exists to be imparted."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on Teachers and Teaching
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"We love the precepts for the teacher's sake."

Farquhar, George on Teachers and Teaching
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"I am not a teacher, but an awakener."

Frost, Robert on Teachers and Teaching
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"You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself."

Galilei, Galileo on Teachers and Teaching
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"Those who know how to think need no teachers."

Gandhi, Mahatma on Teachers and Teaching
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"The teacher gives not of his wisdom, but rather of his faith and lovingness."

Gibran, Kahlil on Teachers and Teaching
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"Those who go to college and never get out are called professors."

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