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Quotes about teachers and teachin
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It is easier for a tutor to command than to teach. (MacDonald Elaine)
Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books. (MacDonald Elaine)
Teaching is of more importance than urging. (MacDonald Elaine)
A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on a cold iron. (MacDonald Elaine)
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What office is there which involves more responsibility, which requires more qualifications, and which ought, therefore, to be more honorable, than that of teaching? (MacDonald Elaine)
The truth is that the average schoolmaster, on all the lower levels, is and always must be essentially and next door to an idiot, for how can one imagine an intelligent man engaging in so puerile an avocation? (MacDonald Elaine)
In the education of children there is nothing like alluring the interest and affection, otherwise you only make so many asses laden with books. (MacDonald Elaine)
The teacher must derive not only the capacity, but the desire, to observe natural phenomena. In our system, she must become a passive, much more than an active, influence, and her passivity shall be composed of anxious scientific curiosity and of absolute respect for the phenomenon which she wishes to observe. The teacher must understand and feel her position of observer: the activity must lie in the phenomenon. (MacDonald Elaine)
No one ever teaches well who wants to teach, or governs well who wants to govern. (MacDonald Elaine)
Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each. (MacDonald Elaine)
To teach well, we need not say all that we know, Successful teachers are effective in spite of the psychological theories they suffer under. (MacDonald Elaine)
Never offer to teach a fish to swim. (MacDonald Elaine)
In teaching others we teach ourselves. (MacDonald Elaine)
He who does not research has nothing to teach. (MacDonald Elaine)
Whatever you teach, be brief; what is quickly said the mind readily receives and faithfully retains, while everything superfluous runs over as from a full container. Who knows much says least. (MacDonald Elaine)
He who undertakes to be his own teacher has a fool for a pupil. (MacDonald Elaine)
The true aim of everyone who aspires to be a teacher should be, not to impart his own opinions, but to kindle minds. (MacDonald Elaine)
We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled, but as candles to be lit. (MacDonald Elaine)
What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child. (MacDonald Elaine)
He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches. (MacDonald Elaine)
I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think. (MacDonald Elaine)
Lessons of wisdom have the most power over us when they capture the heart through the groundwork of a story, which engages the passions. (MacDonald Elaine)
Children should be led into the right paths, not by severity, but by persuasion. (MacDonald Elaine)
To be good is noble, but to teach others how to be good is nobler and less trouble. (MacDonald Elaine)
We will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught. (MacDonald Elaine)
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