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“The teacher should be like the conductor in the orchestra, not the trainer in the circus.”

“The quest for learning is the quest for self-discovery.”

“One of the great things about teaching is how difficult it is to multitask while doing it. Like reading, teaching requires your full focus — I consider that a feature, not a flaw. When things are hard to multitask, that means they require effort and attention, which is a good thing. We have to pay attention, bring our full focus to teaching, and then we can do it well.”

“We all have our unique careers that differ from one another, but the fact is that we must become "teachers and learners" at the end of it all! By the "learning career", we know what other people know; by the "teaching career", we make other people to know what we know!”

“Musicians are our real teachers. They are opening us up politically with their lyrics and creatively with experimental, psychedelic music. They share their discoveries and journeys with us. We can’t travel far, no one I know has ever been on an aeroplane. ... whatever they experience, we experience through their songs. It’s true folk music — not played on acoustic guitar by a bearded bloke — but about true-life experiences.”

“The best way to teach a child is live an exemplary life.”

“Any training is initially difficult, but with persistence practice, we can master the art.”

“If you're not reaching back to help anyone then you're not building a legacy.”

“. . in Old Karate, you learned you Art through pain. You learned quickly that your techniques had to be fast or powerful or both. If you did not embrace pain and it's lessons adequately, you simply did not survive”

“How could we love books more than money? This is the state of book lovers.”

“Ask and wait expectantly for the answer.”

“. . . the sole aim of Okinawa Karate is to teach A person to handle violence and violent individuals; whether it is tactile, mental or spiritual”

“Working together for a great mission is very fulfilling!”

“It's like she's pulling Post-it notes out of her hair and lecturing from them, one of my peers once complained about the teaching style of my beloved teacher Mary Ann Caws. ...Ditto Eileen Myles, who tells a great story about a student at UC San Diego once complaining that her lecturing style was like 'throwing a pizza at us.' My feeling is, you should be so lucky to get a pizza in the face from Eileen Myles, or a Post-it note plucked from the nest of Mary Ann Caws's hair.”

“If a nation wants to be deceived, let it be deceived! Through this way, they will learn the truth after many deceptions and pains! Truth and time are the greatest teachers, they are the greatest instructors!”

“The Woodcraft Folk is a youth organisation, a bit like Brownies or Scouts but it mixes boys and girls together and has an arty, bohemian vibe. [...] We call the adults in charge ‘leaders’ and address them by their Christian names – this is the first time I'm allowed to call an adult by their first name. At Woodcraft children are treated like people, not half-formed irrelevant creatures, we are consulted on every decision that's made.”

“There has been no greater tool to facilitate this weakening of the parent’s authority than the school system. This has gotten so sinister that advocates of the education system have been pushing for children to attend school from younger ages. This is presented as a benefit to the parents as they can now have time to work, and the child is learning from a young age.”

“The first 8 years of a child's life are crucial for their development. During this time, the experiences they have and the things they are exposed to play a significant role in shaping their identity and have a long-term impact on their brain. For those who seek to shape children for their own gain, it is crucial that they isolate them as early as possible from the parents.”

“The world needs teachers – teachers who have broken their own shackles of indoctrination – teachers who can go beyond the narrow-mindedness of the society. A handful of these young, brave and zealous teachers in every nation, shall be enough to rekindle the spark of pure knowledge in the entire species.”

“Un très vieil ami de mon père, sorti premier de l'École normale, avait dû à cet exploit de débuter dans un quartier de Marseille : quartier pouilleux, peuplé de misérables où nul n'osait se hasarder la nuit. Il y resta de ses débuts à sa retraite, quarante ans dans la même classe, quarante ans sur la même chaise. Et comme un soir mon père lui disait : « Tu n'as donc jamais eu d'ambition ? - Oh mais si ! dit-il, j'en ai eu ! Et je crois que j'ai bien réussi ! Pense qu'en vingt ans, mon prédécesseur a vu guillotiner six de ses élèves. Moi, en quarante ans, je n'en ai eu que deux, et un gracié de justesse. Ça valait la peine de rester là. »”