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| Dave Ellis | Appreciate mistakes. When we know how to learn from them, mistakes can be powerful and patient teachers. | Human Being |
| Henry J. Perkinson | "[In keeping with the growth metaphor of education], the teacher is always pupil-centered. However, the teacher centers not on what the pupil wants to know but on what he already knows; not on how the pupil would like to act (or how the teacher would like him to act) but on how he does act; not on the self the pupil would like to be but on the self he is. The teacher's task is to help the pupil improve his present knowledge, conduct, and self understanding." | Learning From Our Mistakes: A Reinterpretation Of Twentieth-Century Educational Theory |
| Albert Einstein | "The goal of education is to create a harmonious personality not to teach specific knowledge." | |
| Mary Rose O'Reilley | "We teachers are in a race with death for the future of humankind." | The Peaceable Classroom |
| Anonymous | "I touch the future; I teach." | Awaken The Giant Within |
| Andy Hargreaves and Michael Fullan | "It is what teachers think, what teachers believe, and what teachers do at the level of the classroom that ultimately shapes the kind of learning that young people get." | Teaching In Mind |
| Dan Lortie | "One's personal predispositions are not only relevant but, in fact, stand at the core of becoming a teacher." | Teaching In Mind |
| Parker Palmer | "As good teachers weave the fabric that joins them with students and subjects, the heart is the loom on which the threads are tied, the tension is held, the shuttle flies, and the fabric is stretched tight. Small wonder then, that teaching tugs at the heart, opens the heart, even breaks the heart -- and the more one loves teaching, the more heartbreaking it can be." | Teaching In Mind |
| Thomas Gradgrind in Charles Dickens's Hard Times | "Now what I want is Facts. Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts. Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else. You can only form the minds of reasoning animals upon Facts: nothing else will ever be of service to them." | Teaching In Mind |
| Everett Shostrom in Man, the Manipulator | "I had a great feeling of relief when I began to understand that a youngster needs more than just subject matter. Oh, I know mathematics well, and I teach it well. I used to think that that was all I needed to do. Now I teach children, not math. I accept the fact that I can only succeed partially with some of them. I have found further that my own personhood has educatable value. When I don't have to know all the answers, I seem to have more answers than before when I tried to be the expert. The youngster who really made me understand this was Eddie. I asked him one day why he thought he was doing so much better than last year. He gave meaning to my whole new orientation. 'It's because I like myself now when I'm with you,' he said." | Teaching In Mind |
| Goethe | "A teacher who can arouse a feeling for one single good action, for one single poem, accomplishes more than he who fills our memory with rows and rows of natural objects, classified with name and form." | Teaching In Mind |
| Susan Ohanion | "Teaching is about everything human, and those who insist on looking only at intellectual abstractions, scorning getting themselves dusty with the rough-and-tumble of a child's reality, should not try it." | Teaching In Mind |
| S.E. Whitnall, in 1933 | "The teacher must not confuse Information with Education, otherwise the student may become a well-taught but wholly unlearning individual." | Teaching In Mind |
| Marion Brady's wife | Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig. | Max & Me |
| Fitzhugh Tuoti | Give a man a fish, and he can eat for a day. But teach a man how to fish, and he'll be dead of mercury poisoning inside of three years. | What Color Is Your Parody? |
| Samuel Johnson | There is no matter what children should learn first, any more than what leg you should put into your breeches first. Sir, you may stand disputing which is best to put in first, but in the meantime your backside is bare. Sir, while you stand considering which of two things you should teach your child first, another boy has learn't 'em both. | Cultural Literacy |
| Mahatma Gandhi | My life is my teaching. | The Life You Were Born To Live |
| Theodore Roszak | All of us who work and write and speak to nourish the mind subscribe to a common article of faith. We believe there is a teachable skill called 'thinking,' which, when combined with a body of common knowledge, will empower thoughtful people to face, if not solve, the great problems of life. | Linda Baker's e-mail signature |
| TEACHING AND LEARNING. Listen silently and learn the truth of what you really want. No more than this will you will be asked to learn. | Gifts From A Course In Miracles | |
| TO TEACH IS TO LEARN. The only way to have peace is to teach peace. By teaching peace you must learn it yourself. | Gifts From A Course In Miracles | |
| LEARNING AND TEACHING. The essential thing is learning that you do not know. | Gifts From A Course In Miracles | |
| Mircea Eliade, The Sacred And The Profane | To tell a myth is to proclaim what happened ab origine .... We must do what the Gods did in the beginning .... One becomes truly a man only by conforming to the teaching of the myths, that is, by imitating the gods. | Your Mythic Journey |
| Jim and Michele McCarthy | It is unfortunate that we do not have highly effective, institutionalized methods for teaching and learning how to give and receive information about each other. INFO ABOUT EACH OTHER. | Software For Your Head |
| Bob Barkley | Telling ain't teaching and listening ain't learning. | The Art Of The Possible |
| Anonymous | Never try to teach a pig how to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig. | The Art Of The Possible |
| Linda V. Williams, Teaching For The Two Sided Mind | An understanding of how the two hemispheres process information is useful in considering approaches to teaching and learning, but in analyzing how individuals learn, relate, function and solve problems, identifying specific learning styles offers a more flexible approach. | The Art Of The Possible |
| Suzuki Roshi | Religion is not any particular teaching. Religion is everywhere. | The Art Of The Possible |
| Suzki Roshi, Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind | The teaching that is written on paper is not the true teaching. Written teaching is a kind of food for your brain. Of course it is necessary to take some food for your brain, but it is more important to be yourself by practicing the right way of life. | |
| Maya Angelou | If you learn, teach. If you get, give. 8ki |
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| Kahil Gibran | I have learned silence from the talkative, tolerance from intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers. | The Art Of The Possible |
| St. Augustine of Hippo | The purpose of miracles is to teach us to see the miraculous everywhere. WONDER -- Wonders Everywhere. | Life Lines |