T Quotes
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“The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.”
Source: Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces
“The teacher who knows the most about a subject isn't necessarily the one who can teach it best.”
“The teacher will be moving through thousands of states of mind and sometimes beyond mind. While you are with the teacher, be sensitive to that. Without being flaky and devotional, develop respect for the teacher, just as the teacher respects you.”
“The teacher will have a certain imprint, and each teacher imprints differently. Ultimately the imprint of the teacher is a limitation that you will have to overcome in your final stages of knowledge.”
“The teacher will never be a parent. The parents are the parents. But they have to engage in some sort of active education beyond just teaching mathematics and French and English because the kids spend more time there than they do with their parents at that age. We have to accept that other adults will be part of our children's education and they will have bad teachers. That's going to happen.”
“The teacher will perform miracles. Not just to delight and amuse people, but showing them that miraculous occurrences indicate that there is something more.”
“The teacher wonders but she doesn't ask It's hard to see the pain behind the mask Bearing the burden of a secret storm Sometimes she wishes she was never born”
“The teacher you need is the person you're living with.”
“The teacher's chief difficulty is poverty. He (or she) belongs to a badly paid profession. He cannot dress and live like a workman, but he is sometimes paid as little as an unskilled laborer.”
Source: THE ART OF TEACHING
“The teacher's life is painfull and therefore would be pityed: it wrastles with unthankfulnesse above all measure...Our calling creepes low and hath pain for companion.”
“The teacher's life should have three periods, study until twenty-five, investigation until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I would have him retired on a double allowance.”
Source: Osler's
“The teacher's prime concern should be to ingrain into the pupil that assortment of habits that shall be most useful to him throughout life. Education is for behavior, and habits are the stuff of which behavior consists.”
Source: Talks to Teachers on Psychology: And to Students on Some of Life's Ideals
“The teacher's role in discussion is to keep it going along fruitful lines - be moderating, guiding, correcting and arguing like one more students.”
Source: The Paideia Proposal: An Educational Manifesto
“The teacher's task is not a small easy one! She has to prepare a huge amount of knowledge to satisfy the child's mental hunger. She is not like the ordinary teacher, limited by a syllabus. The needs of the child are clearly more difficult to answer.”
“The teacher's task is not to talk, but to prepare and arrange a series of motives for cultural activity in a special environment made for the child.”
“The teacher, like the artist, the philosopher, and the man of letters, can only perform his work adequately if he feels himself to be an individual directed by an inner creative impulse, not dominated and fettered by an outside authority.”
“The teacher, when she begins work in our schools, must have a kind of faith that the child will reveal himself through work.”
“The teacher, whether mother, priest, or schoolmaster, is the real maker of history.”
Source: The Salvaging of Civilization: The Probable Future of Mankind
“The teachers are already here, but probably all in the teachers' lounge doing whatever it is they have to do- yoga, black magic, intravenous caffeine drip, a good old-fashioned game of Twister-to help them face another day at the West.”
Source: The Goodbye Girls
“The teachers are everywhere. What is wanted is a learner.”
Source: What Are People For?: Essays
“The teachers are getting screwed, blued, and tattooed by the system.”
“The teachers complain that the students today are all lazy, ignorant, and stupid. But the truth is that you're smarter than they are. You're not even old enough to drive and you already know that none of this matters.”
Source: You
“The teachers don't know anything. What are the kids going to learn with a horrible education system?”
“The teachers I've learned the most from, didn't think they were teaching me; they just thought we were friends.”
“The teachers in America need to be applauded every day because they save the lives of kids!”
“The teachers liked me. In grade school, they make you copy pictures from books. I think the first one was Robert Louis Stevenson.”
Source: Andy Warhol: the late work
“The teachers of hell should be sent there first to be able to describe it accurately”
Source: The Great Pearl of Wisdom
“The teachers of our law, and to propose
What might improve my knowledge or their own.”
Source: The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes of Various Authors, Principally from the Edition of Thomas Newton, Charles Dunster, and Thomas Warton, to which is Prefixed, Newton's Life of Milton
“The teachers of small children are paid more than they were, but still far less than the importance of their work deserves, and they are still regarded by the unenlightened majority as insignificant compared to those who impart information to older children and adolescents, a class of pupils which, in the nature of things, is vastly more able to protect its own individuality from the character of the teacher.”
Source: A Montessori Mother
“The teachers of this country, one may say, have its future in their hands.”
Source: Talks to Teachers on Psychology: And to Students on Some of Life's Ideals
“The teachers that we actually learn more from are the ones that taught us life lessons more than trigonometry. And they have such a huge responsibility and they're under-appreciated and underpaid. So that's my opinion of teachers.”
“The teachers thought there was something wrong with me because I wouldn’t talk to other kids. I was almost playing mind games with them.”
“The teachers tried everything, even pleading, but Tomas was in the habit of addressing them only in Latin, a language he spoke with papal fluency and in which he did not stammer. Sooner or later they all resigned in despair, fearing he might be possessed: he might be spouting demonic instructions in Aramaic at them, for all they knew.”
Source: The Shadow Of The Wind
“The teachers union may not like Betsy DeVos, but she's clearly within the range of Republican policy-makers.”
“The teachers unions are the clearest example of a group that has lost its way. Whenever anyone dares to offer a new idea, the unions protest the loudest. Their attitude was memorably expressed by a longtime president of the American Federation of Teachers: He said, quote, 'When school children start paying union dues, that's when I'll start representing the interests of children.'”
“The teachers want we to be perfect (Nobody is perfect, perfection doesn't exist) - if it exists what's the purpose we to be on this planet when we are not perfect?
However in some subjects it's not quite, it's not possible to focus and get a better grade than this!”
“The teachers were focused on helping these students. The students benefited from hands-on teaching and a faculty who cared about them and their success in life and soon the students began to believe in themselves and the reality that they could make something of their lives.”
“The teachers who get "burned out" are not the ones who are constantly learning, which can be exhilarating, but those who feel they must stay in control and ahead of the students at all times.”
Source: Insult to Intelligence: The Bureaucratic Invasion of Our Classrooms
“The teachers who have had the most impact on me and on most learners I know are teachers whose "selfhoods" have been deeply invested in what they are doing.”
“The teachers' unions that block school reform have done serious damage to the union brand. The public no longer views unions as their friend, much less their champion. They view them as corrupt, intransigent and more interested in protecting their political clout within the Democratic Party than protecting their members or even school children.”
“The teacher’s first duty is to watch over the environment, and this takes precedence over all the rest. It’s influence is indirect, but unless it be well done there will be no effective and permanent results of any kind, physical, intellectual or spiritual.”
“The teaching arises out of the stillness. But when I'm alone, there's only the stillness, and that is my favorite place.”
“The teaching authority of the magisterium had been seriously weakened through the obvious difficulties raised for such a concept of authority by the Great Schism, with the result that, in the absence of any magisterial guidance, theological opinions became confused with catholic dogma...Accompanying this erosion of the teaching authority of the church was an apparent disinclination (whether through unwillingness or inability) on the part of the magisterium to take decisive forcible action to suppress opinions of which it disapproved.”
Source: The Intellectual Origins of the European Reformation
“The teaching is very rewarding, and very time-consuming, and very exhausting. But it's wonderful. The community here at NYU is very precious to me.”
“The teaching of any science, for purposes of liberal education, without linking it with social progress and teaching its social significance, is a crime against the student mind. It is like teaching a child how to pronounce words but not what they mean.”
“The teaching of celibacy was created neither by the Church Fathers nor by the later Church leaders, as most people believe.”
Source: Celibacy: a Godsend or a Life-Undermining Practice
“The teaching of Christ, as it appears in the Gospels, has had extraordinarily little to do with the ethics of Christians.”
Source: Why I Am Not a Christian
“The teaching of godliness must be preached and taught in every available medium.”
Source: The Mountain of Ignorance
“The teaching of Jesus Christ has as its central theme unfoldment towards a realization of immortality.”
“The teaching of Jesus, if properly understood, would do away with organized temple worship altogether.”