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"Modern cynics and skeptics see no harm in paying those to whom they entrust the minds of their children a smaller wage than is paid to those to whom they entrust the care of their plumbing.”
- John F. Kennedy

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“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.”
- Khalil Gibran

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“A true disciple shows his appreciation by reaching further than his teacher.”
- Aristotle

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“Teach the children so that it willnot be necessary to teach the adults.”
- Abraham Lincoln

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I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well”
- Alexander the Great

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“What the teacher is, is more important than what he teaches.”
- Soren Kierkegaard

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“He who opens a school door, closes a prison.”
- Victor Hugo

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“The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.”
- William A. Ward

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“Education’s purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.”
- Malcolm Forbes

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“Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre.”
- Gail Godwin

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“Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained.”
- James A. Garfield

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“The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.”
- Mark van Doren

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“The dream begins with a teacher who believes in you, who tugs and pushes and leads you to the next plateau, sometimes poking you with a sharp stick called truth.”
- Dan Rather

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“None of us got where we are solely by pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps. We got here because somebody (a parent, a teacher, an Ivy League crony or a few nuns) bent down and helped us pick up our boots.”
- Thurgood Marshall

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“To teach is to learn twice.”
- Joseph Joubert

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“Who dares to teach must never cease to learn.”
- John C. Dana

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“When you teach your son, you teach your son’s son.”
- The Talmud

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“Good teachers are costly, but bad teachers cost more.”
- Bob Talbert

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“A good teacher is a master of simplification and an enemy of simplism.”
- Louis Berman

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“If a doctor, lawyer, or dentist had 40 people in his office at one time, all of whom had different needs, and some of whom didn’t want to be there and were causing trouble, and the doctor, lawyer, or dentist, without assistance, had to treat them all with professional excellence for nine months, then he might have some conception of the classroom teacher’s job.”
- Donald Quinn

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“Education is what most receive, many pass on, and few possess.”
- Karl Kraus

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“A good teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.”
- Thomas Carruthers

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“Teachers open the door. You enter by yourself.”
- Chinese proverb

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“Teaching is the profession that teaches all the other professions.”
- Anonymous

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“A good teacher is like a candle: it consumes itself to light the way for others.”
- Anonymous

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"A professor can never better distinguish himself in his work than by encouraging a clever pupil, for the true discoverers are among them, as comets amongst the stars."
- Carl Von Linne

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"Good teachers are those who know how little they know. Bad teachers are those who think they know more than they don’t know."
- R. Verdi