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I am not a teacher: only a fellow-traveller of whom you asked the way. I pointed ahead—ahead of myself as well as of you.

George Bernard Shaw

Delightful task! to rear the tender thought,
To teach the young idea how to shoot.

James Thomson The Seasons (1726)

Full well they laughed, with counterfeited glee,
At all his jokes, for many a joke had he:
Full well the busy whisper, circling round,
Convey'd the dismal tidings when he frown'd.

Oliver Goldsmith The Deserted Village (1770)

Schoolmasters will I keep within my house,
Fit to instruct her youth. * * *
* * * To cunning men
I will be very kind, and liberal
To mine own children in good bringing up.

William Shakespeare

Such an office demands an upright and incorruptible man, who would take delight in his pious work even without any pay, while a high salary and a position of dignity would attract the meanest characters.

Erasmus Letter to Joanes Sapidus (1581)

Let the soldier be abroad if he will, he can do nothing in this age. There is another personage,—a personage less imposing in the eyes of some, perhaps insignificant. The schoolmaster is abroad, and I trust to him, armed with his primer, against the soldier, in full military array.

Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux

Not to keep from error, is the duty of the educator of men, but to guide the erring one, even to let him swill his error out of full cups — that is the wisdom of teachers. Whoever merely tastes of his error, will keep house with it for a long time, ... but whoever drains it completely will have to get to know it.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Wilhelm Meister's Lehrjahre (Apprenticeship) (1786)

The function of the teacher, as we have just defined it, is naturally directed toward a twofold object, interior and exterior, depending upon whether it is applied to the truth the teacher meditates upon and contemplates within himself or to the listeners whom he is teaching.

Étienne Gilson

When you teach, it stimulates you; you're forced to crystallize your own thinking...you're forced to formalize your own theories so that you may communicate them to the students... you go back to your studio and think about this again.

Jacob Lawrence

There is no teaching until the pupil is brought into the same state or principle in which you are; a transfusion takes place; he is you, and you are he; there is a teaching; and by no unfriendly chance or bad company can he ever quite lose the benefit.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

People have forgotten that plants were once regarded as our oldest teachers (2015)

Robin Wall Kimmerer

What they did was sell invisible things. And after they’d sold what they had, they still had it. They sold what everyone needed but often didn’t want. They sold the key to the universe to people who didn’t even know it was locked.

Terry Pratchett The Wee Free Men (2003)

Since human beings are highly adaptable it may be possible for an individual with any sort of competence to learn, in the end, according to any teaching strategy. But the experiments show, very clearly indeed, that the rate, quality and durability of learning is crucially dependent upon whether or not the teaching strategy is of a sort that suits the individual

Gordon Pask Learning Strategies and Individual Competence (1972)

'Tis pleasing to be school'd in a strange tongue
By female lips and eyes—that is, I mean,
When both the teacher and the taught are young,
As was the case, at least, where I have been;
They smile so when one's right; and when one's wrong
They smile still more.

Lord Byron

If you ask me what I want to achieve, it's to create an awareness, which is already the beginning of teaching.

Elie Wiesel

When executives lead as teachers, stewards, and designers, they fill roles that are much more subtle and long-term than those of power-wielding hierarchical leaders.

Peter Senge

Life itself is your teacher, and you are in a state of constant learning.

Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts (2000)

All teaching is dogmatic. Dogma, indeed, means only "a thing taught," and teaching not dogmatic would cease to be teaching and would become discussion and doubt.

Hilaire Belloc Survivals and New Arrivals: The Old and New Enemies of the Catholic Church (1929)

Any teacher that can be replaced by a machine should be!

Arthur C. Clarke Electronic Tutors (1980)

You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room.

Dr. Seuss

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