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«It's a very ancient saying, But a true and honest thought, That if you become a teacher, By your pupils you'll be taught»
«The good teacher discovers the natural gifts of his pupils and liberates them by the stimulating influence of the inspiration that he can impart. The true leader makes his followers twice the men they were before.»
Author: Stephen Neill
| About:
Teachers and teaching
| Keywords:
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«The bad teacher imposes his ideas and his methods on his pupils, and such originality as they may have is lost in the second-rate art of imitation.»
Author: Stephen Neill
| About:
Teachers and teaching
| Keywords:
Bad art, imitation, imposes, methods, originality, pupils, rate, second rate
«Her pupils were at once her salvation and her despair. They gave her the means of supporting life, but they made life hardly worth supporting.»
«No man can be a good teacher unless he has feelings of warm affection toward his pupils and a genuine desire to impart to them what he believes to be of value.»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| About:
Education,
Teachers and teaching
| Keywords:
affection, genuine, impart, imparting, imparts, of value, pupils, warm
«I never teach my pupils; I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
| About:
Education,
Learning
| Keywords:
attempt, conditions, learn, provide, pupils, Teach
«During the majority of his waking hours he is in close association with his pupils, who are admittedly his inferiors, and so he rapidly acquires the familiar, self-satisfied professorial attitude of mind»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| Keywords:
acquires, admittedly, association, familiar, inferiors, professorial, pupils, rapidly, self-satisfied, waking
«Master and Doctor are my titles; for ten years now, without repose, I held my erudite recitals and led my pupils by the nose.»
«The mere mechanical technique of acting can be taught, but the spirit that is to give life to lifeless forms must be born in a man. No dramatic college can teach its pupils to think or to feel. It is Nature who makes our artists for us, though it may be Art who taught them their right mode of expression.»
«I would have the studies elective. Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge. The wise instructor accomplishes this by opening to his pupils precisely the attractions the study has for himself. The marking is a system for schools, not for the college; for boys, not for men; and it is an ungracious work to put on a professor.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| Keywords:
accomplishes, attractions, awakening, awakenings, boys, compulsion, elective, instructor, instructors, marking, opening, professor, pupils, put on, scholarship, schools, school system, studies, The Attractions, ungracious
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