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  • The first duty of a lecturer is 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 forever. - Virginia Woolf


  • The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself. - Edward G Bulwer Lytton


  • To be good is noble, but to teach others how to be good is nobler and less trouble. - Mark Twain


  • He who undertakes to be his own teacher has a fool for a pupil. - German Proverb


  • The true aim of everyone who aspires to be a teacher should be, not to impart his own opinions, but to kindle minds. - Frederick W Robertson


  • What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child. - George Bernard Shaw


  • I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think. - Socrates


  • To teach well, we need not say all that we know, Successful teachers are effective in spite of the psychological theories they suffer under. - Proverb


  • Children should be led into the right paths, not by severity, but by persuasion. - Terence


  • Never offer to teach a fish to swim. - Proverb


  • A gifted teacher is as rare as a gifted doctor, and makes far less money. - unknown


  • He who dares to teach must never cease to learn. - unknown


  • The highest function of the teacher consists not so much in imparting knowledge as in stimulating the pupil in its love and pursuit. - unknown


  • The secret of teaching is to appear to have known all your life what you just learned this morning. - unknown


  • We will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught. - unknown


  • The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires. - William A Ward


  • Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching. - Oscar Wilde


  • Nothing that is worth knowing can be taught. - Oscar Wilde


  • Lessons of wisdom have the most power over us when they capture the heart through the groundwork of a story, which engages the passions. - Laurence Sterne



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