Teaching Quotes

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I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly. — Michel de Montaigne
We discovered that education is not something which the teacher does, but that it is a natural process which develops spontaneously in the human being. — Maria Montessori
The only language men ever speak perfectly is the one they learn in babyhood, when no one can teach them anything! — Maria Montessori
We teachers can only help the work going on, as servants wait upon a master. — Maria Montessori
I learned to impersonate the kind of person that talks about poetry. It comes from teaching, I think. — Robert Morgan
We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. When the loyal opposition dies, I think the soul of America dies with it. — Edward R. Murrow
Your best teacher is your last mistake. — Ralph Nader
I thought, well of course, Kinsey absolutely adored teaching. He was a wonderful teacher. So these kids really inspired me. So that was a clue… — Liam Neeson
Without music, life would be a mistake. — Friedrich Nietzsche
In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad. — Friedrich Nietzsche
The journey from teaching about love to allowing myself to be loved proved much longer than I realised. — Henri Nouwen
Teaching creationism in science class as an alternative to evolution is inappropriate. — Bill Nye
Everywhere I go, I'm asked if I think the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a… — Flannery O'Connor
I had become increasingly concerned in recent years about the lack of civics education in our nation's schools. In recent years, the schools have stopped… — Sandra Day O'Connor
Public misbehavior by the famous is a powerful teaching tool. — Bill O'Reilly
The body is forever teaching us lessons. There are all sorts of things that we can't do, shouldn't do, had better not do very often… — P.J. O'Rourke
The only thing I've ever been interested in teaching anyone in life is cricket. — Peter O'Toole
I am not conscious of working especially hard, or of 'working' at all. Writing and teaching have always been, for me, so richly rewarding that… — Joyce Carol Oates
I don't teach literature from my perspective as 'Joyce Carol Oates.' I try to teach fiction from the perspective of each writer. If I'm teaching… — Joyce Carol Oates
My students often say, 'My roommate read this story and really liked it,' and it's hard to convince them that there are things wrong with… — Joyce Carol Oates

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