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Quotes about teachers and teachin
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I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit. (MacDonald Elaine)
A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops. (MacDonald Elaine)
Learning is finding out what you already know, Doing is demonstrating that you know it, Teaching is reminding others that they know it as well as you do. We are all learners, doers, and teachers. (MacDonald Elaine)
I keep six honest serving men: They taught me all I knew: Their names are What and Why and When and How and Where and Who. (MacDonald Elaine)
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A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops. (MacDonald Elaine)
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. (MacDonald Elaine)
To know how to suggest is the great art of teaching. To attain it we must be able to guess what will interest; we must learn to read the childish soul as we might a piece of music. Then, by simply changing the key, we keep up the attraction and vary the song. (MacDonald Elaine)
The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching. (MacDonald Elaine)
My object will be, if possible, to form Christian men, for Christian boys I can scarcely hope to make. (MacDonald Elaine)
You teach best what you most need to learn. (MacDonald Elaine)
A schoolmaster should have an atmosphere of awe, and walk wonderingly, as if he was amazed at being himself. (MacDonald Elaine)
I believe that every human soul is teaching something to someone nearly every minute here in mortality. (MacDonald Elaine)
Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition. (MacDonald Elaine)
Unless we do his teachings, we do not demonstrate faith in him. (MacDonald Elaine)
The schoolmaster is abroad! And I trust to him armed with his primer against the soldier in full military array. (MacDonald Elaine)
Life is amazing: and the teacher had better prepare himself to be a medium for that amazement. (MacDonald Elaine)
There is no real teacher who in practice does not believe in the existence of the soul, or in a magic that acts on it through speech. (MacDonald Elaine)
The world of knowledge takes a crazy turn when teachers themselves are taught to learn. (MacDonald Elaine)
Housework is a breeze. Cooking is a pleasant diversion. Putting up a retaining wall is a lark. But teaching is like climbing a mountain. (MacDonald Elaine)
The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself. (MacDonald Elaine)
Arrogance, pedantry, and dogmatism... the occupational diseases of those who spend their lives directing the intellects of the young. (MacDonald Elaine)
A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary. (MacDonald Elaine)
First he wrought, and afterward he taught. (MacDonald Elaine)
A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher who is not teaching. (MacDonald Elaine)
If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed; if in terms of ten years, plant trees; if in terms of 100 years, teach the people. (MacDonald Elaine)
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