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Tuesday, September 05, 2006

Quotable Quotes

Here are few mantras that keeps me going through in my professional life.
A good teacher is like a candle - it consumes itself to light the way for others. ~Author Unknown
Good teachers are costly, but bad teachers cost more. ~Bob Talbert
Teaching should be full of ideas instead of stuffed with facts. ~Author Unknown
We expect teachers to handle teenage pregnancy, substance abuse, and the failings of the family. Then we expect them to educate our children. ~John Sculley
Teaching is leaving a vestige of one self in the development of another. And surely the student is a bank where you can deposit your most precious treasures. ~Eugene P. Bertin
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires. ~William Arthur Ward
"I hear, and I forget. I see, and I remember. I do, and I understand." - Chinese Proverb

"If you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you've always got" - NLP adage


"No matter how good teaching may be, each student must take the responsibility for his own education." - John Carolus S. J.
"Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its values only to its scarcity." - Samuel Johnson
"Teachers should guide without dictating, and participate without dominating." - C.B. Neblette

"Teach your children by what you are, not just by what you say" - Jane Revell & Susan Norman

"The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn." - Cicero

"The basic idea behind teaching is to teach people what they need to know." - Carl Rogers


"The job of an educator is to teach students to see the vitality in themselves." - Joseph Campbell

"To teach is to learn twice." - Joseph Joubert

"We think too much about effective methods of teaching and not enough about effective methods of learning." - John Carolus S. J.

"Who dares to teach must never cease to learn." - John Cotton Dana

"You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself." - Galielo Galilei