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“The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Anatole France (Illustrated)

“In New Haven, Conn., when I was growing up, there were two sorts of Irish. There were the "drugstore cowboy" micks, who hung around the Elm Street poolroom over Longley's Lunch. And there were the earnest young Irishmen who fought their way up from the Grand Avenue saloonkeeper backgrounds of their fathers, went through Yale Law School, and have now found high place by the preferment of local politics or in the teaching profession.”

Source: Studs Lonigan

“The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without his teacher.”

Source: Selected writings of Elbert Hubbard: his mintage of wisdom, coined from a life of love, laughter and work

“The most successful businessmen were often uneducated when measured by the scholastic standards of the teaching profession. But they were equal to their social function of adjusting production to the most urgent demand. Because of these merits the consumers chose them for business leadership.”

Source: Human action: a treatise on economics

“Well, teachers have been profoundly demoralized in recent years and are often treated with contempt by politicians. There's a great deal of reckless rhetoric in Washington about the mediocrity of the teaching profession - and I don't find that to be true at all.”

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Author:Jonathan Kozol

“I think teaching should be an exalted profession, not a picked-on profession.”

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Author:Charles Schumer

“Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.”

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Book:The Wit and Wisdom of Oscar Wilde

Source: The Wit and Wisdom of Oscar Wilde

“I think the teaching profession contributes more to the future of our society than any other single profession.”

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Author:John Wooden

“The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.”

Author:Mark Van Doren

“In the long run, much public opinion is made in the universities; ideas generated there filter down through the teaching profession and the students into the general public.”

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Author:B. Carroll Reece

“It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.”

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Book:Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century

Source: Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century