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“By the miracle of teaching, I can give you some of my ability, without losing any of it myself.”

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Ashleigh Brilliant is a British author known for his unique humor and satirical style. Born on December 9, 1933, his work has been influential in the literary and popular culture scenes since the 1960s. more

“David Langford, illustrates the difference between teaching and learning in a little story. He says, 'You know, last Wednesday I taught my dog to whistle. I really did. I taught him to whistle. It was hard work. I really went at it very hard. But I taught him to whistle. Of course, he didn't learn, but I taught.'”

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Author:Myron Tribus

“To sum up: I am the man who when the concern pressed him and his way was straitened and he could find no other device by which to teach a demonstrable truth other than by giving satisfaction to a single virtuous man while displeasing ten thousand ignoramuses - I am he who prefers to address that single man by himself, and I do not heed the blame of those many creatures.”

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Author:Maimonides

“A young man respects and looks up to his teachers.”

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Author:Seneca the Younger

“I am a teacher... The life I lead is the most agreeable I can imagine. [In the] classroom ... there await me a group of intelligent and curious young ... [people] who read the books assigned them with a sense of adventure and discovery, discuss them with zest, and listen appreciatively to explications I may offer. What makes the process most satisfying is the conviction that ... education is mankind's most important enterprise.”

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Author:Moses Hadas

“The reason teaching has to go on is that children are not born human; they are made so.”

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Book:Teacher in America

Source: Teacher in America

“Universities are institutions run by amateurs to train professionals.”

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Author:Derek Bok

“Kerr's Three Rules for a Successful College: Have plenty of football for the alumni, sex for the students, and parking for the faculty. If law school is so hard to get through, how come there are so many lawyers?”

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Author:Calvin Trillin

“As I considered the matter carefully it gradually came to light that all those matters only were referred to mathematics in which order and measurements are investigated, and that it makes no difference whether it be in numbers, figures, stars, sounds or any other object that the question of measurement arises. I saw consequently that there must be some general science to explain that element as a whole which gives rise to problems about order and measurement, restricted as these are to no special subject matter. This, I perceived was called 'universal mathematics'.”

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