Teaching and Learning

Image via Wikipedia“Better than a thousand days of diligent study is one day with a great teacher.”


Japanese Proverb

I've Learned...

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... That the best classroom in the world is at the feet of an elderly person.
... That when you're in love, it shows.
... That just one person saying to me, 'You've made my day!' makes my day.
... That having a child fall asleep in your arms is one of the most peaceful feelings in the world.
... That being kind is more important than being right.
... That you should never say no to a gift from a child.
... That I can always pray for someone when I don't have the strength to help him in some other way.
... That no matter how serious your life requires you to be, everyone needs a friend to act goofy with.
... That sometimes all a person needs is a hand to hold and a heart to understand.
... That simple walks with my father around the block on summer nights when I child did wonders for me as an adult.
... That life is like a roll of toilet paper. The closer it gets to the end, the faster it goes.
... That we should be glad God doesn't give us everything we ask for.
... That money doesn't buy class.
... That it's those small daily happenings that make life so spectacular.
... That under everyone's hard shell is someone who wants to be appreciated and loved.
... That to ignore the facts does not change the facts.
... That when you plan to get even with someone, you are only letting that person continue to hurt you.
... That love, not time, heals all wounds.
... That the easiest way for me to grow as a person is to surround myself with people smarter than I am.
... That everyone you meet deserves to be greeted with a smile.
... That no one is perfect until you fall in love with them.
... That life is tough, but I'm tougher.
... That opportunities are never lost; someone will take the ones you miss.
... That when you harbor bitterness, happiness will dock elsewhere.
... That I wish I could have told my Mom that I love her one more time before she passed away.
... That one should keep his words both soft and tender, because tomorrow he may have to eat them.
... That a smile is an inexpensive way to improve your looks.
... That when your newly born grandchild holds your little finger in his little fist, that you're hooked for life.
... That everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you're climbing it.
... That the less time I have to work with, the more things I get done.

Andy Rooney, American radio and television writer (born Jan. 14, 1919)

Teaching

The mediocre teacher tells.
The good teacher explains.
The superior teacher demonstrates.
The great teacher inspires.

William A. Ward

Teaching

Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards.

Vernon Sanders Law

Teaching

Socrates had a student named Plato, Plato had a student named Aristotle, and Aristotle had a student named Alexander the Great.

Tom Morris

Learning

Love is a better teacher than duty.

Albert Einstein

Teaching

The secret in education lies in respecting the student.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Tolerance

In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.

Dalai Lama

Teaching

A cross-eyed teacher can keep twice the number of children in order than any other, because the pupils do not know who he or she is looking at.

Four Hundred Laughs: Or, Fun Without Vulgarity, compiled and edited by John R. Kemble, 1902

Teaching

The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself.

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

Teaching

Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.

Hector Louis Berlioz

Teaching

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Don't try to fix the students; fix ourselves first. The good teacher makes the poor student good and the good student superior. When our students fail, we, as teachers, too, have failed.

Marva Collins (Aug. 31, 1936 - ) Educator, author
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Learning

It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.

Jacob Bronowski

Learning

I have never in my life learned anything from any man who agreed with me.

Dudley Field Malone

Learning

Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one's self-esteem. That is why young children, before they are aware of their own self-importance, learn so easily.

Thomas Szasz

Learning

The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.

Alvin Toffler

Teaching

The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn.

John Lubbock

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Teaching

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The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn.

John Lubbock

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