Teaching quotations

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◆ Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.
- Plato99
◆ When you want to teach children to think, you begin by treating them seriously when they are little, giving them responsibilities, talking to them candidly, providing privacy and solitude for them, and making them readers and thinkers of significant thoughts from the beginning. That's if you want to teach them to think.
- Bertrand Russell99
◆ A teacher who loves learning earns the right and the ability to help others learn.
- Ruth Beechick99
◆ We now understand that higher-level thinking is more likely to occur in the brain of a student who is emotionally secure than in the brain of a student who is scared, upset, anxious, or stressed.
- Mawhinney and Sagan99
◆ I'm more interested in arousing enthusiasm in kids than in teaching the facts. The facts may change, but that enthusiasm for exploring the world will remain with them the rest of their lives.
- Seymour Simon99
◆ I'm not a teacher: only a fellow traveler of whom you asked the way. I pointed ahead - ahead of myself as well as you.
- George Bernard Shaw99
◆ The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence.
- Amos Bronson Alcott99
◆ An attitude of positive expectation is the mark of the superior personality.
- Brian Tracy99
◆ We never know which lives we influence, or when, or why.
- Stephen King99
◆ I've come to a frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element in the classroom. It's my personal approach that creates the climate. It's my daily mood that makes the weather. As a teacher, I possess a tremendous power to make a child's life miserable or joyous. I can be a tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration. I can humiliate or heal. In all situations, it is my response that decides whether a crisis will be escalated or de-escalated and a child humanized or dehumanized.
- Haim G. Ginott99
◆ There's a lot of talk these days about giving children self-esteem. It's not something you can give; it's something they have to build. Coach Graham worked in a no-coddling zone. Self-esteem? He knew there was really only one way to teach kids how to develop it: You give them something they can't do, they work hard until they find they can do it, and you just keep repeating the process.
- Randy Pausch99
◆ When you study great teachers... you will learn much more from their caring and hard work than from their style.
- William Glasser99
◆ Seek opportunities to show you care. The smallest gestures often make the biggest difference.
- John Wooden99
◆ Do not educate your child to be rich. Educate him to be happy. So when he grows up, he'll know the value of things, not the price.
- Keren Zhims99
◆ The greatest secret of life is to hear lessons and not teach them.
- Vikrant Parsai99

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