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Each of these private teachers who work for pay ... inculcates nothing else than these opinions of the multitude which they opine when they are assembled and calls this knowledge wisdom.

Socrates

The land is the real teacher. All we need as students is mindfulness. Paying attention is a form of reciprocity with the living world, receiving the gifts with open eyes and open heart.

Robin Wall Kimmerer Braiding Sweetgrass (2013)

Who dares to teach must never cease to learn.

John Cotton Dana

School teachers, taking them by and large, are probably the most ignorant and stupid class of men in the whole group of mental workers.

H. L. Mencken The Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche (1908)

The vices of our teachers are not to be imitated, their virtues are.

Jerome

In general, those who govern children forgive nothing in them, but everything in themselves.

François Fénelon

Whoever enters the Way without a guide will take a hundred years to travel a two-day journey.

Rumi

It is always the teacher who must learn the most … or else nothing real has happened in the exchange.

Kim Stanley Robinson The Years of Rice and Salt (2002)

Nothing is so apt to draw men under teaching, as to love, and be loved.

John Chrysostom

A master should be paid liberally, in order to secure a person properly qualified.

John Romilly, 1st Baron Romilly

A teacher comes, they say, when you are ready. And if you ignore its presence, it will speak to you more loudly. But you have to be quiet to hear.

Robin Wall Kimmerer Braiding Sweetgrass (2013)

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

Horace

To teach is to touch the heart and impel it to action.

Louis Sullivan

The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.

Anatole France The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard (1881)

For the life of me I cannot fathom why we expect so much from teachers and provide them so little in return.

Bill Moyers

A boor cannot be sin-fearing, an ignoramus cannot be pious, a bashful one cannot learn, a short-tempered person cannot teach, nor does anyone who does much business grow wise.

Hillel the Younger

It turns out that teaching is one of those things like raising a kid or working out—sometimes amazing, often difficult and painful, but, in hindsight, amazing.

Cory Doctorow The Man Who Sold The Moon (2014)

If you are truly serious about preparing your child for the future, don't teach him to subtract - teach him to deduct.

Fran Lebowitz Social Studies (1981)

What constitutes the teacher is the passion to make scholars, and again and again it happens that the great scholar has no such passion whatever.

George Herbert Palmer

What's all the noisy jargon of the schools?

John Pomfret Reason (1700)

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