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Teachers and teaching

«We have inadvertently designed a system in which being good at what you do as a teacher is not formally rewarded, while being poor at what you do is seldom corrected nor penalized.»
«What experience and history teaches us is that people and governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it»
«We spend the first twelve months of our children's lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve telling them to sit down and shut up.»
«When you love people and have the desire to make a profound, positive impactupon the world, then will you have accomplished the meaning to live.»
«What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes? But the man who orders his life according to their teachings cannot go far wrong»
«What nobler employment, or more valuable to the state, than that of the man who instructs the rising generation?»
«We can teach from our experience, but we cannot teach experience.»
«We must not indulge in unfavorable views of mankind, since by doing it we make bad men believe they are no worse than others, and we teach the good that they are good in vain.»
«We have to start teaching ourselves not to be afraid»
«We teach people how to remember, we never teach them how to grow.»