| Author |
Quotes |
| Amy Tan | My mother would say it is literally ghost writers who come to me |
| Bible | But ask now the beasts, any they shall teach thee; and the fowls of the air, and they shall tell thee: Or speak to the earth, and it shall teach thee: and the fishes of the sea shall declare unto thee. |
| Charles M Dickinson | Example isn't another way to teach, it is the only way to teach. |
| Charles M Dickinson | It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge. |
| Charles M Dickinson | You teach me baseball and I'll teach you relativity. . . . No we must not. You will learn about relativity faster than I learn baseball. |
| Emile Capouya | A high-school teacher, afer all, is a person deputized by the rest of us to explain to the young what sort of world they are living in, and to defend, if possible, the part their elders are playing in it. |
| G C Lichtenberg | Most subjects at universities are taught for no other purpose than that they may be retaught when the students become teachers. |
| Isocrates | If you be a lover of instruction, you will be well instructed. |
| Isocrates | To teach is to learn twice. |
| Jacques Barzun | Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition. |
| James Anthony Froude | Instruction does not prevent waste of time or mistakes; and mistakes themselves are often the best teachers of all. |
| James Anthony Froude | A boy is better unborn than untaught. |
| James Anthony Froude | Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater. |
| Joseph Chamberlain | You cannot teach old dogs new tricks. |
| Joseph Joubert | To teach is to learn twice. |
| Virginia Woolf | The first duty of a lecturer--to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up between the pages of your notebooks and keep on the mantlepiece forever. |
| Elbert Hubbard | The teacher is one who makes two ideas grow where only one grew before. |
| George Bernard Shaw | He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches. |
| George Bernard Shaw | What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child. |
| Horatius Flaccus | Instruction enlarges the natural powers of the mind. |
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