Teaching Quotes

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The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young. — Willa Cather
Smartness runs in my family. When I went to school I was so smart my teacher was in my class for five years. — Gracie Allen
Benevolence alone will not make a teacher, nor will learning alone do it. The gift of teaching is a peculiar talent, and implies a need… — John Jay Chapman
Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher who is not teaching. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
If you're teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are. — Noam Chomsky
My youngest sister, Cindy, has Down syndrome, and I remember my mother spending hours and hours with her, teaching her to tie her shoelaces on… — Amy Chua
When I'm not the Tiger Mom, I'm a professor at Yale Law School, and if one thing is clear to me from years of teaching,… — Amy Chua
The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is. — Winston Churchill
The price of greatness is responsibility. — Winston Churchill
I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught. — Winston Churchill
It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. — Winston Churchill
What nobler employment, or more valuable to the state, than that of the man who instructs the rising generation? — Marcus Tullius Cicero
The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
A good teacher, like a good entertainer first must hold his audience's attention, then he can teach his lesson. — John Henrik Clarke
If I lead the field in any way, it is in the area of curricula development, study guides and other teaching materials. — John Henrik Clarke
My daddy wanted me to be a farmer; feel the smoothness of Alabama clay and become one of the first blacks in my town to… — John Henrik Clarke

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