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I think science is best taught as a puzzle to be solved.

Steven Novella

It has been well said that the effective leader must know the meaning and master the techniques of the educator.

Philip Selznick

She found more gratification in teaching one willing student than a dozen resentful ones.

Octavia Butler Dawn (1987)

Teaching is a personal matter of the nursery of the mind and should not be on public display.

Saul Gorn to Saul Gorn in: National Association of Educational Broadcasters (1968)

Anything that is worth teaching can be presented in many different ways. These multiple ways can make use of our multiple intelligences.

Howard Gardner Laurie Myers, ‎Joseph Will (2015)

An ideal teacher for me is someone who never lacks love, even when they have to be strict. I find it heartwarming to think of teachers being able to carefully watch over each individual (student).

Yui Aragaki Yui Aragaki (2015)

Farsighted theologians are now working to mine the eternal metal from the teachings of Jesus and to forge it for all time.

Max Planck

We don’t know anything about silent sages, buried knowledge, the eye of the mute poet, serene seers, yet how many talkative destroyers, prophets and ideologues, teachers and beautifiers there are on the other side.

Dejan Stojanovic The Shape (2000)

The best learners are also teachers.

Dave Ulrich

Teachers should be trained and retrained. This should be done regularly. If teachers who are key factors in schools are left out, then we should not expect that pupils would perform very well.

Oluwayemisi Oluremi Obilade

A teacher does not train; they educate and elevate.

Paolo Crepet

Your old teacher never explained anything to you? I don't think that was very good. Not to explain. You can always ask me anything. That's what a real teacher should do.

James Clavell The Children's Story (1982)

Call me a thinker, a teacher, call me anything that is of the earth, but a god I cannot think that I am one, or can ever be.

J. E. Casely Hayford Ethiopia Unbound: Studies in Race Emancipation (1911)

Atatürk was the first to show that it is possible to mobilize and regenerate the resources that a country has lost. In this respect Atatürk was a teacher; Mussolini was his first and I his second student.

Adolf Hitler

When I see the worsening degeneracy in our politicians, our media, our educators, and our intelligentsia, I can’t help wondering if the day may yet come when the only thing that can save this country is a military coup.

Thomas Sowell

"I wish to become a teacher of the Truth."
"Are you prepared to be ridiculed, ignored and starving till you are forty-five?"
"I am. But tell me: What will happen after I am forty-five?"
"You will have grown accustomed to it."

Anthony de Mello Wellsprings : A Book of Spiritual Exercises (1985)

What..should be the effort on the part of parents and educators? First, and above everything else, the effort should be made to provide an atmosphere wherein certain qualities can flourish and emerge...

Alice Bailey Education in the New Age (1954)

Could the professors and scientific men of these countries have seriously taken into consideration... cohesive strength.., though they knew of the existence of some cements.

Rafael Guastavino Essay on The Theory and History of Cohesive Construction (1892)

If you ask me:"An openly homosexual teacher can work as a teacher? I say no. (...) I'll not do anything to discriminate you, but I'll also not do anything to put your type of relationship on the same level of the natural family.

Gianfranco Fini

The biggest mistake of past centuries in teaching has been to treat all children as if they were variants of the same individual, and thus to feel justified in teaching them the same subjects in the same ways.

Howard Gardner

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