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Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills.
Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills.
The teacher is the one who gets the most out of the lessons, and the true teacher is the learner.
The teacher is the one who gets the most out of the lessons, and the true teacher is the learner.
In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to read more
In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something else.
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
Teaching is the greatest act of optimism.
Teaching is the greatest act of optimism.
Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself.
Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself.
I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.
I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.
No bubble is so iridescent or floats longer than that blown by the successful teacher.
No bubble is so iridescent or floats longer than that blown by the successful teacher.
I am bourgeois to the core and parochial beyond belief, and yet I am drawn to art and scholarship as read more
I am bourgeois to the core and parochial beyond belief, and yet I am drawn to art and scholarship as my anti-type, my shadow, the voice of distinction I never possessed. I don't think of myself as a teacher so much as an impersonator of profundities, inhabiting the wisdom of texts with the naked confidence that the value of the genius I espouse transcends the particular fraud that I am the one espousing it. And it doesn't even matter to me that no one seems to be listening; those who listen that I don't know about are enough to keep me going--soaring on the wings of borrowed metaphors.
