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QUOTE-FOR-THE-DAY
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1
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A good teacher,
like a good entertainer, first must hold his audience's attention. Then
he can teach
the lesson.
--John Henrik Clarke
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2
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If I am walking with two other men, each of them
will serve as my teacher.
I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad
points of the other and correct them in myself.
-- Confucius
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3
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If you can read this, thank a teacher.
--Anonymous teacher
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4
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Teachers open the
door. You enter by yourself.
--Chinese Proverb
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5
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The mediocre teacher
tells./ The good teacher
explains./ The superior teacher
demonstrates./ The great teacher
inspires.
--William A. Ward
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6
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Experience is a hard teacher
because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward.
--Vernon Law
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7
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The true teacher
defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-distrust.
He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him. He will
have no disciple.
--Amos Bronson Alcott
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8
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The gift of teaching
is a peculiar talent, and implies a need and a craving in the teacher
himself.
--John Jay Chapman
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9
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He most honors my style who learns under it to
destroy the teacher.
--Walt Whitman
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10
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Teachers believe
they have a gift for giving; it drives them with the same irrepressible
drive that drives others to create a work of art or a marker or a building.
--A. Bartlett Giamatti
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11
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A teacher
affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.
--Henry Brooks Adams
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12
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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.
--Stephen Neill
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13
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The good teacher
... discovers the natural gifts of his pupils and liberates them by the
stimulating influence of the inspiration that he can impart.
--Stephen Neill
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14
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I'm not a teacher:
only a fellow-traveller of whom you asked the way. I pointed ahead --ahead
of myself as well as you.
--George Bernard Shaw
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15
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Once more I would adopt the graver style --/ A
teacher
should be sparing of his smile.
--William Cowper
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16
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Why not whip the teacher
when the pupil misbehaves?
-- Diogenes
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17
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I am indebted to my father for living, but to
my teacher for
living well.
-- Alexander the Great
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18
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A good teacher
is one who helps you become who you feel yourself to be. A good teacher
is also one who says something that you won't understand until 10 years
later.
--Julius Lester
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19
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A master can tell you what he expects of you.
A teacher, though,
awakens your own expectations.
--Patricia Neal
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20
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A teacher
can only lead you to the threshold of your own mind.
--Kahlil Gibran
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21
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A teacher
is the candle that lights others in consuming itself.
--Giovanni Ruffini
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22
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Good teachers
are costly, but bad teachers
cost more.
--Robert Talbert
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23
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I had a terrible education. I attended a school
for emotionally disturbed teachers.
--Woody Allen
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24
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Now all my teachers
are dead except silence.
--W.S. Merwin
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25
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Students rarely disappoint teachers
who assure them in advance that they are doomed to failure.
--Sidney Hook
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26
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Teachers can change
lives with just the right mix of chalk and challenges.
--Joyce A. Myers
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27
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The dream begins with a teacher
who believes in you, who tugs and pushes and leads you to the next plateau,
sometimes poking you with a sharp stick called 'truth.'
--Dan Rather
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28
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The teacher
is one who makes two ideas grow where only one grew before.
--Elbert Hubbard
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29
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There are two kinds of teachers:
the kind that fill you with so much quail shot that you can't move, and
the kind that just gives you a little prod behind and you jump to the skies.
--Robert Frost
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30
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We expect teachers
to handle teenage pregnancy, substance abuse, and the failings of the family.
Then we expect them to educate our system.
--John Sculley
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31
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I am not a teacher,
but an awakener.
--Robert Frost
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