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Teaching is not a lost art but the regard for it is a lost tradition.

teachers, teaching

A high-school teacher after all is a person deputized by the rest of us to explain to the young what sort of world they are living in and to defend if possible the part their elders are playing in it.

teachers, teaching

George Bernard Shaw

He who can does. He who can’t teaches.

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Nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

teachers, teaching

The secret of teaching is to appear to have known all your life what you learned this afternoon.

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No man can reveal to you aught but that which already lies half asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.

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The first duty of a lecturer- to hand you after an hour’s discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up between the pages of your notebooks and keep on the mantelpiece for ever.

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We teach what we need to learn and write what we need to know.

teachers, teaching

Geoffrey Chaucer

First he wrought and afterwards he taught.

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Chinese Proverb

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.

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The school teacher is certainly underpaid as a child minder but ludicrously overpaid as an educator.

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There is no crisis to which academics will not respond with a seminar.

teachers, teaching