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“Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants.”
John W. Gardner quotes (American Writer and Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, 1912-2002)
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“The test of a good teacher is not how many questions he can ask his pupils that they will answer readily, but how many questions he inspires them to ask him which he finds it hard to answer”
Alice Wellington Rollins quotes
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“If a child can't learn the way we teach, maybe we should teach the way they learn.”
Ignacio Estrada quotes
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“Tell me and I'll forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and I'll understand.”
Chinese Proverbs quotes
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“If kids come to us [educators / teachers] from strong, healthy functioning families, it makes our job easier. If they do not come to us from strong, healthy, functioning families, it makes our job more important.”
Barbara Colorose quotes
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“The greatest sign of success for a teacher... is to be able to say, "The children are now working as if I did not exist."”
Maria Montessori quotes (Italian Physician and Educator. 1870-1952)
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“No man can be a good teacher unless he has feelings of warm affection toward his pupils and a genuine desire to impart to them what he believes to be of value.”
Bertrand Russell quotes (English Logician and Philosopher 1872-1970)
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“More important than the curriculum is the question of the methods of teaching and the spirit in which the teaching is given”
Bertrand Russell quotes (English Logician and Philosopher 1872-1970)
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“The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.”
Mark van Doren quotes (American Writer and Educator, 1894-1972)
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“Don't try to fix the students, fix ourselves first. The good teacher makes the poor student good and the good student superior. When our students fail, we, as teachers, too, have failed.”
Marva Collins quotes (American Educator. b.1936)
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“The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.”
William Arthur Ward quotes (American dedicated scholar, author, editor, pastor and teacher)
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