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“The best thing for being sad," replied Merlin, beginning to puff and blow, "is to learn
something. That's the only thing that never fails. You may grow old and trembling in your
anatomies, you may lie awake at night listening to the disorder of your veins, you may miss your
only love, you may see the world about you devastated by evil lunatics, or know your honour
trampled in the sewers of baser minds. There is only one thing for it then — to learn. Learn why
the world wags and what wags it. That is the only thing which the mind can never exhaust, never
alienate, never be tortured by, never fear or distrust, and never dream of regretting. Learning is
the only thing for you. Look what a lot of things there are to learn.”
― T.H. White, The Once and Future King
tags: curiosity, depression, education, learning, teaching
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“[Kids] don't remember what you try to teach them. They remember what you are.”
― Jim Henson, It's Not Easy Being Green: And Other Things to Consider
tags: childhood, education, learning, teaching
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“It would seem that you have no useful skill or talent whatsoever," he said. "Have you thought of
going into teaching?”
― Terry Pratchett
tags: discworld, humor, humour, teaching
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2. “A person can learn a lot from a dog, even a loopy one like ours. Marley taught me about living
each day with unbridled exuberance and joy, about seizing the moment and following your heart.
He taught me to appreciate the simple things-a walk in the woods, a fresh snowfall, a nap in a
shaft of winter sunlight. And as he grew old and achy, he taught me about optimism in the face
of adversity. Mostly, he taught me about friendship and selflessness and, above all else,
unwavering loyalty.”
― John Grogan, Marley and Me: Life and Love With the World's Worst Dog
tags: dogs, learning, life, teaching
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“The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.”
― William Arthur Ward
tags: curiosity, leadership, mentoring, teachers, teaching
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“In learning you will teach, and in teaching you will learn.”
― Phil Collins
tags: education, learning, mentoring, teaching
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“Those who know, do. Those that understand, teach.”
― Aristotle
tags: teaching, understanding
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3. “Wisdom cannot be imparted. Wisdom that a wise man attempts to impart always sounds like
foolishness to someone else ... Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find
it, live it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.”
― Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha
tags: communication, foolishness, knowledge, sharing, teaching, wisdom
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“Quand tu veux construire un bateau, ne commence pas par rassembler du bois, couper des
planches et distribuer du travail, mais reveille au sein des hommes le desir de la mer grande et
large.
If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people together to collect wood and don't assign them
tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
tags: antoine-de-saint-exupéry, motivation, teaching
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“Don't fuck with an English major. They keep lots of useless crap trapped in their heads. Once in
a while they let some of it out and it bites you square on the ass.”
― P.C. Cast, Divine By Mistake
tags: english, knowledge, teaching
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“You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.”
― Galileo Galilei
tags: teaching, wisdom
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4. “Adults constantly raise the bar on smart children, precisely because they're able to handle it.
The children get overwhelmed by the tasks in front of them and gradually lose the sort of
openness and sense of accomplishment they innately have. When they're treated like that,
children start to crawl inside a shell and keep everything inside. It takes a lot of time and effort to
get them to open up again. Kids' hearts are malleable, but once they gel it's hard to get them back
the way they were.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore
tags: children, parenting, teaching
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“No man can reveal to you aught but that which already lies half asleep in the dawning of your
knowledge.
The teacher who walks in the shadow of the temple, among his followers, gives not of his
wisdom but rather of his faith and his lovingness.
If he is indeed wise he does not bid you enter the house of his wisdom, but rather leads you to the
threshold of your own mind.”
― Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet
tags: knowledge, learning, philosophy, poetry, teaching, wisdom
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“True teachers are those who use themselves as bridges over which they invite their students to
cross; then, having facilitated their crossing, joyfully collapse, encouraging them to create their
own.”
― Nikos Kazantzakis
tags: education, learning, teaching
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5. “I am afraid that the schools will prove the very gates of hell, unless they diligently labor in
explaining the Holy Scriptures and engraving them in the heart of the youth.”
― Martin Luther
tags: education, faith, religion, religion-in-schools, scripture, teaching
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“The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without a teacher.”
― Elbert Hubbard
tags: teaching
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“Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.”
― Jacques Barzun
tags: education, school, teaching, tradition
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“Experience teaches only the teachable.”
― Aldous Huxley
tags: teaching
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“There's a lot of talk these days about giving children self-esteem. It's not something you can
give; it's something they have to build. Coach Graham worked in a no-coddling zone. Self-
esteem? He knew there was really only one way to teach kids how to develop it: You give them
something they can't do, they work hard until they find they can do it, and you just keep
repeating the process.”
― Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture
tags: children, teaching

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“Only those who look with the eyes of children can lose themselves in the object of their wonder.
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― Eberhard Arnold
tags: guidance, inspiration, teaching
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“I’ve come to a frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element in the classroom. It’s my
personal approach that creates the climate. It’s my daily mood that makes the weather. As a
teacher, I possess a tremendous power to make a child’s life miserable or joyous. I can be a tool
of torture or an instrument of inspiration. I can humiliate or heal. In all situations, it is my
response that decides whether a crisis will be escalated or de-escalated and a child humanized or
dehumanized.”
― Haim G. Ginott
tags: teaching
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“I never teach my pupils, I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.”
― Albert Einstein
tags: teaching
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“A child who is protected from all controversial ideas is as vulnerable as a child who is protected
from every germ. The infection, when it comes- and it will come- may overwhelm the system, be
it the immune system or the belief system.”
― Jane Smiley
tags: teaching

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