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Quotes about teachers and teachin
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Once more I would adopt the graver style -- a teacher should be sparing of his smile. (MacDonald Elaine)
A wisely chosen illustration is almost essential to fasten the truth upon the ordinary mind, and no teacher can afford to neglect this part of his preparation. (MacDonald Elaine)
Who dares to teach must never cease to learn. (MacDonald Elaine)
Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn. (MacDonald Elaine)
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The real difficulty, the difficulty which has baffled the sages of all times, is rather this: how can we make our teaching so potent in the motional life of man, that its influence should withstand the pressure of the elemental psychic forces in the individual? (MacDonald Elaine)
It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge. (MacDonald Elaine)
The man who can make hard things easy is the educator. (MacDonald Elaine)
Knowledge exists to be imparted. (MacDonald Elaine)
I am not a teacher, but an awakener. (MacDonald Elaine)
You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself. (MacDonald Elaine)
Those who know how to think need no teachers. (MacDonald Elaine)
The teacher gives not of his wisdom, but rather of his faith and lovingness. (MacDonald Elaine)
Those who go to college and never get out are called professors. (MacDonald Elaine)
Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater. (MacDonald Elaine)
Good teaching must be slow enough so that it is not confusing, and fast enough so that it is not boring. (MacDonald Elaine)
I swear... to hold my teacher in this art equal to my own parents; to make him partner in my livelihood; when he is in need of money to share mine with him; to consider his family as my own brothers and to teach them this art, if they want to learn it, without fee or indenture. (MacDonald Elaine)
When you introduce a moral lesson, let it be brief. (MacDonald Elaine)
The teacher is one who makes two ideas grow where only one grew before. (MacDonald Elaine)
Morality sticks faster when presented in brief sayings than when presented in long discourse. (MacDonald Elaine)
To teach is to learn twice. (MacDonald Elaine)
One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child. (MacDonald Elaine)
To teach successfully we must tell all we know, but only what is adaptable to the student. (MacDonald Elaine)
Why are we never quite at ease in the presence of a schoolmaster? Because we are conscious that he is not quite at his ease in ours. He is awkward, and out of place in the society of his equals. He comes like Gulliver from among his little people, and he cannot fit the stature of his understanding to yours. (MacDonald Elaine)
A schoolteacher or professor cannot educate individuals, he educates only species. (MacDonald Elaine)
Most subjects at universities are taught for no other purpose than that they may be re-taught when the students become teachers. (MacDonald Elaine)
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