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Teaching Quotes



"I do recognise that, where recruitment difficulties persist, teachers can be put under great pressure."



"You cannot teach a person anything, you can only help him find it within himself."



"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."



"Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre."



"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."



"The teacher should be like the conductor in the orchestra, not the trainer in the circus."



"Our goal as believers is to teach people to observe the principles of God."



"I like teaching and the contact with young minds keeps one on one's toes."



"A true teacher defends his students against his own personal influences."



"I am presently in my thirteenth year of teaching a graduate course at the University of Southern California."



"Teach the people the Word before converting and baptizing them."



"As with any other specialisation, teaching is a vocation, open only to those who are truly capable of discharging its functions."


"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."



"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."


"I will teach my son, that his desire to be great doesn't depend on those unfortunate enough to ignore their own."



"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."



"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."



"I teach well. I used to really like teaching a lot. I enjoyed it a lot and I was good at it."



"More than anybody else I'd like to thank Count Basie for teaching me how to perform."



"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."


"Teaching is the best way to learn. Never stop learning."


"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."


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



"To understand kingdom principles is to teach kingdom principles."



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



"A book, for the Sufis, is an instrument as much as it is something to give information....The key is the teacher."


"Teach a child not to seek help but to seek the opportunity to help others."



"We shouldn't any of us be afraid of teaching protective measures to save lives."



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



"Never follow any impulse to teach, however strong it might be. The command to teach is not felt as an impulsion."


"You become a real teacher when your understanding of the wants and needs of the student results in the student revealing her inner beauty."



"I'm a teacher still, but with a much larger classroom."
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