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There is no real teacher who in practice does not believe in the existence of the soul, or in a magic that acts on it through speech.

Allan Bloom
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One good teacher in a lifetime may sometimes change a delinquent into a solid citizen.

Philip Wylie
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That is the difference between good teachers and great teachers: good teachers make the best of a pupil's means; great teachers foresee a pupil's ends. -Maria Callas
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In one century we went from teaching Latin and Greek in high school to offering remedial English in college.

Joseph Sobran
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A teacher enlarges people in all sorts of ways besides just his subject matter.

Wallace Stegner
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A loving, caring teacher took a liking to me. She noticed the potential and wanted to help shape it. -Tom Bradley
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I am sure it is one's duty as a teacher to try to show boys that no opinions, no tastes, no emotions are worth much unless they are one's own. I suffered acutely as a boy from the lack of being shown this.

Arthur Christopher Benson
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Teachers are expected to reach unattainable goals with inadequate tools. The miracle is that at times they accomplish this impossible task.

Dr. Haim Ginott
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There are many teachers who could ruin you. Before you know it you could be a pale copy of this teacher or that teacher. You have to evolve on your own. -Berenice Abbott
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The bad teacher imposes his ideas and his methods on his pupils, and such originality as they may have is lost in the second-rate art of imitation.

Stephen Neill
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Benevolence alone will not make a teacher, nor will learning alone do it. The gift of teaching is a peculiar talent, and implies a need and a craving in the teacher himself.

John Jay Chapman
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A teacher must believe in the value and interest of his subject as a doctor believes in health. -Gilbert Highet
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Politics, where fat, bald, disagreeable men, unable to be candidates themselves, teach a president how to act on a public stage.

Jimmy Breslin
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It is just as important, perhaps more important, for the teacher to have the benefit of personal counseling when he needs it as it is for the student.

Dr. William Menninger
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Teaching was the hardest work I had ever done, and it remains the hardest work I have done to date. -Ann Richards
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There is one thing a professor can be absolutely certain of: almost every student entering the university believes, or says he believes, that truth is relative.

Allan Bloom
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You don't have to teach people how to be human. You have to teach them how to stop being inhuman.

Eldridge Cleaver
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An understanding heart is everything in a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feeling. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child. -Carl Jung
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Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers.

Socrates
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There are two kinds of teachers: the kind that fill you with so much quail shot that you can't move, and the kind that just gives you a little prod behind and you jump to the skies.

Robert Frost
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In a rational society we would want our presidents to be teachers. In our actual society we insist they be cheerleaders. -Steve Allen
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Teachers open the door. You enter by yourself.

Chinese Proverb
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My education was dismal. I went to a series of schools for mentally disturbed teachers.

Woody Allen
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This might give teachers some things they might like. But fortunately, our members look beyond their own self-interest and see the damage this would inflict. -Charles Hasse
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Things do go wrong, ... We had sent all these books to Nepal, but then we did an evaluation with local teachers.

John Wooden
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With their current offer the board is given the option of protecting themselves by rehiring every three years to avoid firing. We also want to protect experienced teachers.

Tim Marchant
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We do this for coaches, teachers and all kinds of groups. -Tina Barnard
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We have also expanded our selection of office accessory supplies and products for teachers, many of whom spend a lot of money purchasing school supplies for their classrooms.

Gary Rhodes
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Teachers are selfless, creative, warm people.

Alice Carter
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It's definitely going to be a challenge. I'm going to miss my family, friends ... the west coast. The community in general. The coaches, teachers, family, they make it home for me. Moving away from all these people, I'm going to miss that a lot. But I'm going to broaden my horizons, it's going to be good for me. -Myles Butler
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