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A great teacher

I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.
John Steinbeck
A paradoxical fact
We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought.
Bertrand Russell
A teacher affects eternity
A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.
Henry Adams
Books
Books let us into their souls and lay open to us the secrets of our own.
William Hazlitt
Born weak
We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man's estate, is the gift of education.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Developing a country
No country can really develop unless its citizens are educated.
Nelson Mandela
Discipline
Seek freedom and become captive of your desires, seek discipline and find your liberty.
Frank Herbert
Drink deep
A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.
Alexander Pope
Education
Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.
Malcolm X
Education
And just because you have colleges and universities doesn't mean you have education.
Malcolm X
Education and tolerance
The highest result of education is tolerance.
Helen Keller
Entertainment and education
I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.
Walt Disney
Force or harshness
Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each.
Plato
Formidable combination
A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.
Nelson Mandela
Free
Only the educated are free.
Epictetus
Good manners
Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot.
Clarence Thomas
Guidance
You learn more quickly under the guidance of experienced teachers. You waste a lot of time going down blind alleys if you have no one to lead you.
W. Somerset Maugham
He who knows how to read
Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting.
Aldous Huxley
I am indebted
I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.
Alexander the Great
Ignorance and knowledge
Ignorance is bold, and knowledge is reserved
Thucydides
Ignorance and stupidity
Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.
Bertrand Russell
Information
An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious, mendacious - just dead wrong.
Russell Baker
Knowledge
Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.
Anton Chekhov
knowledge and wisdom
Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
Learning and the mind
Learning never exhausts the mind.
Leonardo da Vinci
Learning and thinking
He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.
Confucius
Nature
Come forth into the light of things, let nature be your teacher.
William Wordsworth
No shortage of things to do
Until we're educating every kid in a fantastic way, until every inner city is cleaned up, there is no shortage of things to do.
Bill Gates
Opening a school
He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
Victor Hugo
Pleasure of studying
Isn't it a pleasure to study and practice what you have learned?
Confucius
Teaching
We should not teach children the sciences; but give them a taste for them.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The art of the teacher
It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.
Albert Einstein
The best teachers
The best teachers teach from the heart, not from the book.
Author Unknown
The hopes of the instructed
Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant.
Epictetus
The ink of the scholar
The ink of the scholar is more holy than the blood of the martyr.
Prophet Muhammad
The mark of an educated mind
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
Aristotle
The more you know
The more you know, the less you need.
Indigenous / Aboriginal saying
The most powerful weapon
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
Nelson Mandela
The place for ideas
College isn't the place to go for ideas.
Helen Keller
The practice of freedom
Education either functions as an instrument which is used to facilitate integration of the younger generation into the logic of the present system and bring about conformity or it becomes the practice of freedom, the means by which men and women deal critically and creatively with reality and discover how to participate in the transformation of their world.
Paulo Freire
The profession of teaching
Teaching is the profession that teaches all the other professions.
Author Unknown
The teacher
Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.
Bill Gates
The threshold of your mind
The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.
Khalil Gibran
The world
The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.
Saint Augustine
What is education?
Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.
Albert Einstein
What we find in books
What we find in books is like the fire in our hearths. We fetch it from our neighbors, we kindle it at home, we communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all.
Voltaire

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