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by Emile Capouya    ( comments )

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A high-school teacher, afer all, is a person deputized by the rest of us to explain to the young what more

A high-school teacher, afer all, is a person deputized by the rest of us to explain to the young what sort of world they are living in, and to defend, if possible, the part their elders are playing in it.

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by Ralph Waldo Emerson    ( comments )

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The man who can make hard things easy is the educator.

The man who can make hard things easy is the educator.

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by Virginia Woolf    ( comments )

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The first duty of a lecturer--to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up more

The first duty of a lecturer--to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up between the pages of your notebooks and keep on the mantlepiece forever.

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by Mark Twain    ( comments )

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To be good is noble, but to teach others how to be good is nobler--and less trouble.

To be good is noble, but to teach others how to be good is nobler--and less trouble.

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by George Bernard Shaw    ( comments )

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He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.

He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.

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by Amy Tan    ( comments )

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My mother would say it is literally ghost writers
who come to me
(Tan is the author of what became more

My mother would say it is literally ghost writers
who come to me
(Tan is the author of what became The Joy Luck Club).

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by George Bernard Shaw    ( comments )

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What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.

What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.

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by Ralph Waldo Emerson    ( comments )

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Knowledge exists to be imparted.

Knowledge exists to be imparted.

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by Elbert Hubbard    ( comments )

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The teacher is one who makes two ideas grow where only one grew before.

The teacher is one who makes two ideas grow where only one grew before.

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by Horace (quintus Horatius Flaccus)    ( comments )

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Instruction enlarges the natural powers of the mind.
[Lat., Doctrina sed vim promovet insitam.]

Instruction enlarges the natural powers of the mind.
[Lat., Doctrina sed vim promovet insitam.]

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