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Teaching Quotes by John Dewey
- All learning begins when our comfortable ideas turn out to be inadequate.
- The development occurs through reciprocal give-and-take, the teacher taking but not being afraid also to give.
- To be interested is to be absorbed in, wrapped up in, carried away by, some object. To take an interest is to be on the…
- I do not think that any thorough-going modification of college curriculum would be possible without a modification of the methods of instruction.
- Too rarely is the individual teacher so free from the dictation of authoritative supervisor, textbook on methods, prescribed course of study, etc., that he can…
- Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.
- Were all instructors to realize that the quality of mental process, not the production of correct answers, is the measure of educative growth something hardly…
- Any genuine teaching will result, if successful, in someone's knowing how to bring about a better condition of things than existed earlier.
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- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching. — Aristotle
- Lao Tsu doesn't seem to hold to much stock for words or phrases or teachings. — Frederick Lenz
- Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach. — Aristotle
- With the states release today of a set of clear and consistent academic standards, our nation is one step closer to supporting… — Bill Gates
- The real master is only a presence. He has no intentions of being a master. His presence is his teaching. His love… — Rajneesh
- It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. — Aristotle
- Having a clear faith, based on the creed of the church is often labeled today as fundamentalism. Whereas relativism, which is letting… — Pope Benedict XVI