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"We can teach a lot of things, but if the teacher can't relate by talking to a group of friendly students, he'll never be a competent teacher."
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"You become a real teacher when your understanding of the wants and needs of the student results in the student revealing her inner beauty."

"The principles of spiritual kingdom has been packaged in the written word of God."

"Wise man can make people hearmore lessons than words spoken."

"Teaching is not only a profession, but it a is a purpose of a great life."

"My mother wasn't a fool," I say. "She just understood something you didn't. That it's not sacrifice if it's someone else's life you're giving away, it's just evil."I back up another step and say, "She taught me all about real sacrifice. That it should be done from love, not misplaced disgust for another person's genetics. That it should be done from necessity, not without exhausting all other options. That it should be done for people who need your strength because they don't have enough of their own. ..."

"A healthy and ideal system of education would be where a teacher would patiently impart knowledge, instead of curriculum, upon the students, only after assessing their acceptability " where a student would acquire knowledge in order to learn, not to earn " where the parents would be willing to make necessary sacrifices in order to adorn their child with curiosity and thereafter nourish that curiosity, regardless of how absurdly impractical it becomes to the eyes of the society."
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"We don't focus as much in schools on educational knowledge which requires thinking and application, as we do on acquiring facts."


"This is at the heart of all good education, where the teacher asks students to think and engages them in encouraging dialogues, constantly checking for understanding and growth."


"I think education is both using and improving knowledge and that changes the whole picture."


"If we had in this room a hundred teachers, good teachers from good schools, and asked them to define the word education, there would be very little general agreement."


"We can pay teachers a hundred thousand dollars a year, and we'll do nothing to improve our schools as long as we keep the A, B, C, D, F grading system."


"It is almost impossible for anyone, even the most ineffective among us, to continue to choose misery after becoming aware that it is a choice."
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