“The Sunday School teacher talked too much in the way our grade school teacher used to when she told us about George Washington. Pleasant, pretty stories, but not true.”
— Frances Farmer
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“The true aim of everyone who aspires to be a teacher should be, not to impart his own opinions, but to kindle minds.”
— Frederick William Robertson
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“I had one companion. He was a teacher from the Ukraine who spoke English so we could communicate a bit. I learnt a few Russian words, but it was hard to concentrate.”
— Mathias Rust
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“When people lack teachers, their tendencies are not corrected; when they do not have ritual and moral principles, then their lawlessness is not controlled.”
— Xun Zi
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“The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-trust. He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him. He will have no disciples.”
— Amos Bronson Alcott
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“My duty as a teacher is to train, educate future programmers.”
— Niklaus Wirth
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“The five steps in teaching an employee new skills are preparation, explanation, showing, observation and supervision.”
— Bruce Barton
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“I was a teacher for a long time. I taught at a community college: voice, theory, humanities. And nowadays, music education is a dying thing. Funding is being cut more and more and more.”
— Jon Secada
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“I was a mimic when I was a child. I mimicked the teacher and made friends that way, actually. That was a very subversive activity, because I was a goody-goody who never got in trouble. But if I went off in the corner and mimicked the teacher, people loved it.”
— Anna Deavere Smith
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“What students lack in school is an intellectual relationship or conversation with the teacher.”
— William Glasser
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“Discussion in class, which means letting twenty young blockheads and two cocky neurotics discuss something that neither their teacher nor they know.”
— Vladimir Nabokov
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