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Teacher Quotes by Albert Einstein
- If I would follow your advice and Jesus could perceive it, he, as a Jewish teacher, surely would not approve of such behavior.
- Most teachers waste their time by asking question which are intended to discover what a pupil does not know whereas the true art of questioning…
- The point is to develop the childlike inclination for play and the childlike desire for recognition and to guide the child over to important fields…
- The great moral teachers of humanity were in a way artistic geniuses in the art of living.
- School failed me, and I failed the school. It bored me. The teachers behaved like Feldwebel (sergeants). I wanted to learn what I wanted to…
- To a student: Dear Miss - I have read about sixteen pages of your manuscript . . . I suffered exactly the same treatment at…
- Academic chairs are many, but wise and noble teachers are few; lecture-rooms are numerous and large, but the number of young people who genuinely thirst…
- Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.
- It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.
- Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.
- It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.
- Love is a better teacher than duty.
- I never teach my pupils, I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.
- Teaching should be such that what is offered is perceived as a valuable gift and not as a hard duty.
- If I would be a young man again and had to decide how to make my living, I would not try to become a scientist…
- Example isn't another way to teach, it is the only way to teach.
- It would be better if you begin to teach others only after you yourself have learned something.
- Our schoolbooks glorify war and conceal its horrors. They indoctrinate children with hatred. I would teach peace rather than war, love rather than hate.
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