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Teaching Quotes
"I do recognise that, where recruitment difficulties persist, teachers can be put under great pressure."
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"What did I tell you about plastic ties? Only for humans, Julie murmured.If you don't listen to me, I can't teach you anything."
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"Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre."
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"More than anybody else I'd like to thank Count Basie for teaching me how to perform."
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"We shouldn't any of us be afraid of teaching protective measures to save lives."
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"As long as my sixth graders showed an average improvement of five years, the principal and district pretty much left me alone to create my own curriculum and teach whatever I wanted."
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"I'm a teacher still, but with a much larger classroom."
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"I like teaching and the contact with young minds keeps one on one's toes."
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"It is by teaching that we teach ourselves, by relating that we observe, by affirming that we examine, by showing that we look, by writing that we think, by pumping that we draw water into the well."
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"You cannot teach a person anything, you can only help him find it within himself."
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"I am presently in my thirteenth year of teaching a graduate course at the University of Southern California."
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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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"A book, for the Sufis, is an instrument as much as it is something to give information....The key is the teacher."
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"I teach well. I used to really like teaching a lot. I enjoyed it a lot and I was good at it."
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"As with any other specialisation, teaching is a vocation, open only to those who are truly capable of discharging its functions."
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"Teach the people the Word before converting and baptizing them."
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"Never follow any impulse to teach, however strong it might be. The command to teach is not felt as an impulsion."
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"A father teaches his children that the battle is not determined by the enemy that stands around them, but by the God Who stands within them. And that lesson can only be driven home as they watch their father stand around them, while God stands within their father."
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"A true teacher defends his students against his own personal influences."
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"The teacher should be like the conductor in the orchestra, not the trainer in the circus."
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"I will teach my son, that his desire to be great doesn't depend on those unfortunate enough to ignore their own."
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"Teaching is the best way to learn. Never stop learning."
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"To understand kingdom principles is to teach kingdom principles."
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"The way I saw it, if my students were willing to pretend I was a teacher, the least I could do was return the favor and pretend that they were writers."
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"There was no place else she'd rather be than slow-dancing on a beach with the sexiest, sweetest, most attentive man she'd ever been with."
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"I have been given the rare opportunity to teach Jiu Jitsu for a living. This is a privilege that I wake up everyday grateful for, and a responsibility that I hold dearly. I understand how rare it is to be employed through a labor you genuinely love, and one which can be used as a vehicle for positive change in the lives of others. Even rarer still, I am often reminded of the quality of Jiu Jitsu I have learned, and the opportunity to have learned it."
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"I loved teaching and I did a lot of work as a teacher's assistant in college, and my favorite experience was basically getting a laugh from a bunch of people because they had just understood something."
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"The most important and uniquely glorious element of Buddha's character was that, he did not compel his pupils to be slaves either to his teachings or to himself, but like a conscientious human, demanded from his followers to accept his words not merely out of regard for him but after subjecting them to a thorough examination. And this is where Buddha stands out from the crowd of self-proclaimed prophets."
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"From today onward, you will learn how to become evangelical about the many ways you help people."
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"The Seeking of the Master. Musa Najib was asked why he charged a fee from those who came to his sessions; and why he often did not even address his audience. He said: 'I charge for this object lesson: people believe that knowledge must be given freely, and consequently mistake everything which is free for knowledge. I do not always lecture because, among Sufis, "The Master finds the pupil. The pupil has to be physically present: but he may be absent in every other sense. When I discern that a pupil is "present then I "find him, for then his inner call is audible to me, even if it is silent to him.' 'Seek and you will be found."
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"Bhikkhus, the teaching is merely a vehicle to describe the truth. Don't mistake it for the truth itself. A finger pointing at the moon is notthe moon. The finger is needed to know where to look for the moon, but if you mistake the finger for the moon itself, you will never knowthe real moon.The teaching is like a raft that carries you to the other shore. The raft is needed, but the raft is not the other shore. An intelligent personwould not carry the raft around on his head after making it across to the other shore. Bhikkhus, my teaching is the raft which can help youcross to the other shore beyond birth and death. Use the raft to cross to the other shore, but don't hang onto it as your property. Do notbecome caught in the teaching. You must be able to let it go."
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"Counsels of BahaudinYou want to be filled. But something which is full has first to be emptied. Empty yourself so that you will fill properly, by observing these counsels, which you can do as duties to yourself:FirstNever follow any impulse to teach, however strong it might be. The command to teach is not felt as an impulsion."
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"I therefore used the last ten minutes of our classes to recite with them words from the Bible and verses from hymns, so that they would know them and the words would stay with them throughout their lives. The aim of my teaching was to bring to their hearts and thoughts the great truths of the Gospels so religion would have meaning in their lives and give them the strength to resist the irreligious forces that might assail them. I also tried to awaken in them a love for the Church, and a desire for that hour of spiritual peace to be found in the Sunday service. I taught them to respect traditional doctrines, but at the same time to hold fast to the saying of Paul that where the spirit of Christ is, there is freedom."
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