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Teaching Quotes

I have several favorite quotes about teaching.  Some of them are from well known people and some are from regular people who know just how important teaching is.  Here they are:

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Theodore Roosevelt

"To educate a person in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society." -- Theodore Roosevelt

 

"The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards." -- Anatole France

 

"Plant the seeds of hope, love & peace in the heart of a child and you will change the world." -- Don Poitras

 

"We are all teachers and we are all students. We all have something to give and we all have something to learn." -- Diane M. Giuliano

 

"The temple that teachers built will last while ages roll, for that beautiful unseen temple is the child's eternal soul." -- Noreen Mingo

 

"The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching." -- Aristotle

 

"Good teaching is one-forth preparation and three-fourths theater." -- Gail Godwin

 

"There are three requisites for good teaching: One, you have to love you subject; two, you have to know what you're talking about; three, you have to like students. The question is whether you can make an impact on somebody's mind and soul." -- Pierce Lewis

 

"Learning is finding out what you already know. Doing is demonstrating that you know it. Teaching is reminding others that they know it just as well as you. You are all learners, doers, teachers." -- Richard Bach

 

"The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery."-- Mark Van Doren

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Aristotle

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