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    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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The trainer trains the docile horse to turn, with his sensitive
neck, whichever way the rider indicates.
[Lat., read more

The trainer trains the docile horse to turn, with his sensitive
neck, whichever way the rider indicates.
[Lat., Fingit equum tenera docilem cervice magister
Ire viam qua monstret eques.]

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

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

by George Bernard Shaw Found in: Teaching Quotes,
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What's a' your jargon o' your schools,
Your Latin names for horns and stools;
If honest nature read more

What's a' your jargon o' your schools,
Your Latin names for horns and stools;
If honest nature made you fools.

by Robert Burns Found in: Teaching Quotes,
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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.

by George Bernard Shaw Found in: Teaching Quotes,
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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 read 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.

by Virginia Woolf Found in: Teaching Quotes,
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If you be a lover of instruction, you will be well instructed.

If you be a lover of instruction, you will be well instructed.

by Isocrates Found in: Teaching Quotes,
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Excellence is a better teacher than mediocrity. The lessons of the ordinary are everywhere. Truly profound and original insights are read more

Excellence is a better teacher than mediocrity. The lessons of the ordinary are everywhere. Truly profound and original insights are to be found only in studying the exemplary.

by Warren Bennis Found in: Teaching Quotes,
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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.

by Ralph Waldo Emerson Found in: Teaching Quotes,
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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.

by Mark Twain Found in: Teaching Quotes,
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