"Never regret your past. Accept it as the teacher that it is."
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"If we were interested in making money, we wouldn't have become teachers."
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"Instead of being the 'font of all knowledge,' teachers are required to be effective facilitators of student learning both within and outside the classroom at any time."
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"Experience is the only teacher we have."
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"I am a child whose teacher is LOVE surely my master won't let me grow to be a fool."
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"Yeah, Quirrell was a great teacher. There was just that minor drawback of him having Lord Voldemort sticking out of the back of his head!"
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"The office of the public teacher is an unenviable and thankless one."
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"For the first time, I wasn't afraid to be smart, and she often stayed after school to work with me."
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"They call me "a teacher, a fomenter of violence." I would say point blank, "That is a lie. I'm not for wanton violence, I'm for justice.""
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"Science is a cooperative enterprise spanning the generations. It's the passing of a torch from teacher to student to teacher. A community of minds, reaching back to antiquity and forward to the stars."
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"Do not believe what you have heard Do not believe in tradition because it is handed down many generations Do not believe in anything that has been spoken of many times Do not believe because the written statements come from some old sage Do not believe in conjecture Do not believe in authority, or teachers, or elders But after careful observation and analysis, when it agrees with reason and it will benefit one and all, then accept it and live by it."
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"Do not accept what you hear by report, do not accept tradition, do not accept a statement because it is found in our books, nor because it is in accord with your belief, nor because it is the saying of your teacher. Be lamps unto yourselves. Those who, either now or after I am dead, shall rely upon themselves only and not look for assistance to anyone besides themselves, it is they who shall reach the topmost height."
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"Don't blindly believe what I say. Don't believe me because others convince you of my words. Don't believe anything you see, read, or hear from others, whether of authority, religious teachers or texts."
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"Out of monuments, names, words proverbs ...and the like, we do save and recover somewhat from the deluge of time."
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"History is the teacher of life"
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"I had a number of teachers who hated me. I didn't do well in school."
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"Fine art is the only teacher except torture."
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"We never completely escape the teachers of our childhood nor any of the patterns that formed us."
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"One who has drunk at the fountain of spiritual happiness says good-by of his own accord to the satisfactions that come from a higher professional status ... What is the greatest sign of success for a teacher thus transformed? It is to be able to say, "The children are now working as if I did not exist."
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"A teacher, therefore, who would think that he could prepare himself for his mission through study alone would be mistaken. The first thing required of a teacher is that he be rightly disposed for his task."
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