2,279 Quotes About Teaching



  • Author Richard Ernst
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    I recognized that teaching and research institutions vitally depend on the involvement of active scientists also in management functions.

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  • Author Roger Ebert
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    Film theory has nothing to do with film. Students presumably hope to find out something about film, and all they will find out is an occult and arcane language designed only for the purpose of excluding those who have not mastered it and giving academic rewards to those who have. No one with any literacy, taste or intelligence would want to teach these courses, so the bona fide definition of people teaching them are people who are incapable of teaching anything else.

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  • Author Werner Erhard
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    What gives people superiority at a task is true intention. That makes you attuned to everything.

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  • Author Abraham Flexner
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    Medical education is not just a program for building knowledge and skills in its recipients... it is also an experience which creates attitudes and expectations.

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  • Author Anatole France
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    Do not try to satisfy your vanity by teaching a great many things. Awaken people's curiosity. It is enough to open minds; do not overload them. Put there just a spark. If there is some good inflammable stuff, it will catch fire.

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