2,279 Quotes About Teaching

  • Author Gilbert Highet
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    You [the teacher] do not merely insert a lot of facts, if you teach them [the students] properly. It is not like injecting 500 cc. of serum, or administering a year's dose of vitamins.

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  • Author Gilbert Highet
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    Bad teaching wastes a great deal of effort, and spoils many lives which might have been full of energy and happiness.

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  • Author Gordon B. Hinckley
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    I do not know what the future holds. I do not wish to sound negative, but I wish to remind you of the warnings of scripture and the teachings of the prophets which we have had constantly before us.

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  • Author Harri Holkeri
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    What we can do as individuals may not be very much on the global scale, but we have to start the change by living as we are teaching.

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  • Author Horace
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    Doctrina sed vim promovet insitam. Instruction enlarges the natural powers of the mind.

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  • Author Horace
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    The trainer trains the docile horse to turn, with his sensitive neck, whichever way the rider indicates.

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  • Author Horace
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    Teaching brings out innate powers, and proper training braces the intellect.

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