"Don't agonise, organise."
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"I can't tell you how many people say they were turned off from science because of a science teacher that completely sucked out all the inspiration and enthusiasm they had for the course."
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"I wanted to be a ballet teacher."
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"Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty."
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"I didn't fancy any of my teachers."
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"The observation of the way in which the children pass from the first disordered movements to those which are spontaneous and ordered -- this is the book of the teacher; this is the book which must inspire her actions . . ."
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"The first thing required of a teacher is that he be rightly disposed for his task."
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"THE most important day I remember in all my life is the one on which my teacher, Anne Mansfield Sullivan, came to me"
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"The most important day I remember in all my life is the one on which my teacher, Anne Mansfield Sullivan, came to me. I am filled with wonder when I consider the immeasurable contrasts between the two lives which it connects. It was the third of March, 1887, three months before I was seven years old."
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"The best method for a given teacher is the one which is most familiar to the teacher."
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"At the utmost, the active-minded young man should ask of his teacher only mastery of his tools. The young man himself, the subject of education, is a certain form of energy; the object to be gained is economy of his force; the training is partly the clearing away of obstacles, partly the direct application of effort. Once acquired, the tools and models may be thrown away."
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"The bells themselves are the best of preachers, Their brazen lips are learned teachers, From their pulpits of stone, in the upper air, Sounding aloft, without crack or flaw, Shriller than trumpets under the Law, Now a sermon and now a prayer."
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"You say that I should be your teacher! See to it that I am your pinion and not your brake."
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"If you have this extraordinary thing going in your life, then it is everything; then you become the teacher, the disciple, the neighbour, the beauty of the cloud - you are all that, and that is love."
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"There is an old saying that the course of civilization is a race between catastrophe and education. In a democracy such as ours, we must make sure that education wins the race."
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"People should organize people to just turn up and participate in the democratic process. Knock on doors. They may not be old enough to register to vote, but they can urge their teachers, their parents, their grandparents, their mothers, their fathers, and others to get out and vote."
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"Certain subjects yield a general power that may be applied in any direction and should be studied by all."
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"It takes a great deal of living to get a little deal of learning."
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"Do you know how much you can learn from a mere pair of high-heels? If you don't fall, you'll learn a bit, but If you do fall, you'll learn everything. If you become successful, you'll learn a bit, but if you fail, you'll get to learn everything. Success is the dumbest teacher, not the other way around"
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"Nowadays there is no conversation at all. Teachers distrust talk as much as business men."
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