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Teacher Quotes by Mahatma Gandhi

13 Teacher quotes by Mahatma Gandhi

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If you’re looking for a brief yet resonant glimpse into how a visionary leader viewed the role of a teacher, this set of thirteen reflections does just that. The words are short, the ideas profound, and they give a sense of Gandhi’s gentle guidance without overwhelming you.

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Those who know how to think need no teachers.

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There is no need of a teacher for those who know how to think.

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Every home is a university and the parents are the teachers.

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Jesus, to me, is a great world teacher among others.

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I have always felt that the true text-book for the pupil is his teacher

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If everyone will try to understand the core of his own religion and adhere to it, and will not allow false teachers…

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A teacher who establishes rapport with the taught, becomes one with them, learns more from them than he teaches them.

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If you give me rice, I'll eat today; if you teach me how to grow rice, I'll eat every day.

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If there was any teacher in the world who insisted upon the inexorable law of cause and effect, it was Gautam, and…

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A teacher who establishes rapport with the taught, becomes one with them, learns more from them than he teaches them. He who…

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Whilst I may not actually help anyone to retaliate, I must not let a coward seek shelter behind nonviolence so-called. Not knowing…

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A teacher who establishes rapport with the taught, becomes one with them, learns more from them than he teaches them. He who…

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“There is an incident which occurred at the examination during my first year at the high school and which is worth recording.…

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I do not want to live at the cost of the life even of a snake. I should let him bite me to death…

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Devotion required by the Gita is no soft-hearted effusiveness.

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No nation being under another nation can accept gifts, and kick at the responsibility attached to those gifts, imposed by the conquering nation.

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So long as we fear the outside world, we must cease to think of Swaraj.

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I do not want a kingdom, or heaven; what I want is to remove the trouble of the oppressed, the poor, and the needy.

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Religions are not for separating men from one another, they are meant to bind them.

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I hold flesh-food to be unsuited to our species. We err in copying the lower animal world if we are superior to it.

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“It was only in South Africa that I got over this shyness, though I never completely overcame it. It was impossible for me to…

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“Where there is life.”

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If it was wrong to seek God in a stone, how was it right to seek Him in a book called the Gita, the…

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The spirit of democracy cannot be established in the midst of terrorism, whether governmental or popular.

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Champions are made from something they have deep inside of them-a desire, a dream, a vison.

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My motto is "Unite now, today if you can; fight if you must. But in every case avoid British intervention."

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I have no disciples, being myself an aspirant after discipleship and in search of a guru.

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Man becomes not the lord and master of all creation but he is its servant.

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