"Nothing is more unbecoming to a teacher of the Word than flippancy. He must be serious and should not act like a clown."
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"learning 's a gift, even when "pain" ,s your teacher!"
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"A lecture has been well described as the process whereby the notes of the teacher become the notes of the student without passing through the mind of either."
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"I did not take the name, I just named myself Cassius Clay, this is a honorable, Mohammed Ali, given to me by my religious leader and teacher, the Honorable Elijah Mohammed, and I would like to say that Mohammed means in Arabic "one who is worthy of praise" and one praiseworthy, and Ali means the most High, but the slave name Clay meant dirt with no ingredients."
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"But some of the nonsense was evil, since it concealed great crimes. For example, teachers of children in the United States of America wrote this date on blackboards again and again, and asked the children to memorize it with pride and joy: 1492. The teachers told the children that this was when their continent was discovered by human beings. Actually, millions of human beings were already living full and imaginative lives on the continent in 1492. That was simply the year in which sea pirates began to cheat and rob and kill them."
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"The goal of teaching is learning, not teaching."
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"The time has come for honest men to denounce false teachers and attack false gods."
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"I felt landscapes would sell more readily, and not being equipped psychologically to be a teacher or commercial artist, that was important."
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"We should reflect on the idea that since the beginning of time sentient beings have been mentally unstable because they have been slaves of delusion, they lack the eye of wisdom to see the path leading to nirvana and enlightenment, and they lack the necessary guidance of a spiritual teacher. Moment by moment they are indulging in negative actions, which will eventually bring about their downfall."
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"Maybe, just maybe, I would like to become a real spiritual teacher, a working lama!"
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"Either Jesus is the Son of God ; or a madman or worse. But His being just a great teacher? He's not left that open to us."
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"We may note in passing that He (Jesus) was never regarded as a mere moral teacher. He did not produce that effect on any of the people who actually met Him. He produced mainly three effects - Hatred - Terror - Adoration. There was no trace of people expressing mild admiration."
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"The simulated approval and affection with which parents and teachers are often urged to solve behavior problems are counterfeit. So are flattery, backslap-ping, and many other ways of "winning friends."
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"To do is hard, but to teach is still harder. Do not teach only to teach. Teach to improve the pupil. To be a teacher requires tremendous, vigorous discipline on oneself. We are teachers because somebody demands it from us. But the teacher should first rub his own self, and teach afterwards"
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"If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help. There was a great teacher somewhere in your life."
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"Once the awakening happens, with it comes the realization that suffering is unnecessary now. You have reached the end of suffering because you have transcended the world. It is the place that is free of suffering. This seems to be everybody's path. Perhaps it is not everybody's path in this lifetime, but it seems to be a universal path. Even without a spiritual teaching or a spiritual teacher, I believe that everybody would get there eventually. But that could take time."
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"A teacher or teaching is not essential for spiritual awakening, but they save time."
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"When there's a teacher who embodies presence, then it seems to come for a while through that opening. The teacher is an opening to presence."
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"Teaching is only demonstrating that it is possible. Learning is making it possible for yourself."
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"Whether the teacher is authoritarian, undisciplined, competent, incompetent, serious, irresponsible, involved, a lover of people and of life, cold, angry with the world, bureaucratic, excessively rational, or whatever else, he/she will not pass through the classroom without leaving his or her mark on the students."
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