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    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.

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The sounding jargon of the schools.

The sounding jargon of the schools.

by William Cowper Found in: Teaching Quotes,
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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 read 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.

by Emile Capouya Found in: Teaching Quotes,
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What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university read more

What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.

by Thomas Carlyle Found in: Teaching Quotes,
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O ye! who teach the ingenious youth of nations,
Holland, France, England, Germany or Spain,
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O ye! who teach the ingenious youth of nations,
Holland, France, England, Germany or Spain,
I pray ye flog them upon all occasions,
It mends their morals, never mind the pain.

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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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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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Instruction does not prevent waste of time or mistakes; and
mistakes themselves are often the best teachers of all.

Instruction does not prevent waste of time or mistakes; and
mistakes themselves are often the best teachers of all.

by James Anthony Froude Found in: Teaching Quotes,
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It is by teaching that we teach ourselves, by relating that we observe, by affirming that we examine, by showing read more

It is by teaching that we teach ourselves, by relating that we observe, by affirming that we examine, by showing that we look, by writing that we think, by pumping that we draw water into the well.

by Henri Frederic Amiel Found in: Teaching Quotes,
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Sometimes questions are more important than answers.

Sometimes questions are more important than answers.

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