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Teacher Quotes by Mortimer Adler
- The teacher's role in discussion is to keep it going along fruitful lines - be moderating, guiding, correcting and arguing like one more students.
- Teachers may think they are stuffing minds, but all they are ever affecting is the memory. Nothing can ever be forced into anyone's mind except…
- All genuine learning is active, not passive. It involves the use of the mind, not just the memory. It is a process of discovery, in…
- A lecture has been well described as the process whereby the notes of the teacher become the notes of the student without passing through the…
- If you ask a living teacher a question, he will probably answer you. If you are puzzled by what he says, you can save yourself…
- Books are absent teachers.
More Teacher Quotes
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach. — Aristotle
- Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work. — Aristotle
- The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching. — Aristotle
- Retired is being tired twice, I've thought, first tired of working, then tired of not. — Richard Armour
- Sandwich every bit of criticism between two layers of praise. — Mary Kay Ash
- Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer; into a selflessness which links us with all humanity. — Nancy Astor
- My parents were early converts to Christianity in my part of Nigeria. They were not just converts; my father was an evangelist,… — Chinua Achebe
- Our generation in the west was lucky: we had readymade gateways. We had books, paper, teachers, schools and libraries. But many in… — Margaret Atwood
- A professor is someone who talks in someone else's sleep. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Catholic schools in our Nation's education have been paramount in teaching the values that we as parents seek to instill in our… — Joe Baca
- Deprivation sometimes can be one of the most marvelous teachers. — Michele Bachmann