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Teachers and teaching
«The test of a good teacher is not how many questions he can ask his pupils that they will answer readily, but how many questions he inspires them to ask him which he finds it hard to answer»
Author: Alice Wellington Rollins
| About:
Education,
Questioning,
Teachers and teaching
| Keywords:
finds, inspires, pupils, readily, teacher, test, The test
«The teacher is like the candle, which lights others in consuming itself»
Author: Italian Proverb
| About:
Education,
Teachers and teaching
| Keywords:
candle, consuming, lights, The Teacher
«The parents have a right to say that no teacher paid by their money shall rob their children of faith in God and send them back to their homes skeptical, or infidels, or agnostics, or atheists»
Author: William Jennings Bryan
(Orator, Politician)
| About:
Atheism,
Children,
Faith,
Infidelity,
Parents,
Skepticism,
Teachers and teaching
| Keywords:
agnostics, atheists, homes, infidels, pay back, rob, send back, skeptical, The Infidels
«The teacher must derive not only the capacity, but the desire, to observe natural phenomena. The teacher must understand and feel her position of observer: the activity must lie in the phenomenon.»
Author: Maria Montessori
(Educator, Physician)
| About:
Teachers and teaching
| Keywords:
derive, lie in, natural phenomenon, observe, observer, phenomena, phenomenon, position, The Observer, The Teacher
«The science which teacheth arts and handicrafts is merely science for the gaining of a living; but the science which teacheth deliverance from worldly existence, is not that the true science?»
Author: Thomas Hobbes
(Philosopher)
| About:
Existence,
Science,
Teachers and teaching
| Keywords:
Arts and, Arts and Sciences, deliverance, handicraft, handicrafts
«The things we know best are the things we haven't been taught.»
Author: Vauvenargues, Marquis de
| About:
Teachers and teaching
«The professors must not prevent us from realizing that history is fun, and that the most bizarre things really happen»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| About:
Teachers and teaching
| Keywords:
bizarre, professors, realizing
«The teacher, like the artist and the philosopher, can perform his work adequately only if he feels himself to be an individual directed by an inner creative impulse, not dominated and fettered by an outside authority.»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| About:
Teachers and teaching
| Keywords:
adequately, Creative impulse, creative work, directed, Directed By, dominated, fetter, fettered, impulse, in fetters, only if, perform, philosopher, The Philosopher, The Teacher
«The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.»
Author: Kahlil Gibran
(Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Teachers and teaching,
Wisdom
| Keywords:
bid, enter, house, House of, indeed, leads, teacher, The Teacher, threshold, thresholds
