"...being an effective teacher is a high calling."
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"Be versed in ancient lore, and familiarize yourself with the modern; then may you become teachers."
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"If a man keeps cherishing his old knowledge so as continually to be acquiring new, he may be a teacher of others."
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"Acquire new knowledge whilst thinking over the old, and you may become a teacher of others."
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"Clergymen almost necessarily fail in two ways as teachers of morals. They condemn acts which do no harm and they condone acts which do great harm."
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"Technology must be implemented as part of a thoughtful, holistic approach to education transformation that includes teacher training, relevant curricula, parental involvement, and programs for children that fill unmet needs for basics like nutrition and health care."
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"Unfortunately, in rich-world health, innovation is both your friend and your enemy. Innovation is inventing organ replacement, joint replacement. We're inventing ways of doing new things that cost $300,000 and take people in their 70s and, on average, give them an extra, say, two or three years of life. And then you have to say, given finite resources, should we fire two or three teachers to do this operation?"
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"The great moral teachers of humanity were in a way artistic geniuses in the art of living."
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"The father receives his power from God (and from his own father). The teacher finds the soil already prepared for obedience, and the political leader has only to harvest what has been sown."
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"But the idea that I should be a teacher and a researcher of some sort did not vary over the years."
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"Always to see the general in the particular is the very foundation of genius."
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"In the practical use of our intellect, forgetting is as important as remembering."
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"If the mortality rate seems high we must realize that Nature is a ruthless teacher. There are no second chances in Mother Nature's Survival Course."
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"No guru, no method, no teacher, just you and I and nature, and the father in the garden."
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"The man (or woman) who can make hard things easy is the educator."
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"Teachers who offer you the ultimate answers do not possess the ultimate answers, for if they did, they would know that the ultimate answers cannot be given, they can only be received."
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"Success is a poor teacher"
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"Let your Teacher be Love itself."
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"You are the mirror of divine beauty."
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"My uncle, who's an art teacher, took me under his wing and gave me a really strong foundation in art. I spent summers with him, and he taught me how to draw, how to see, how to mix colors, how to use different mediums and perspective, and so forth."
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