"I was even accused of teaching the chimps how to fish for termites which I mean that would have been such a brilliant coup."
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"Act your age. Students do not look upon you as a buddy, pal, or peer. They expect you to be a mature adult....Many young teachers have a tendency to seek popularity, resorting to tactics that can create endless problems."
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"I couldn't run a tight schedule, and if you're any good at teaching, you get sucked dry because you like your students and you're trying to help them, but you don't have any time left to write yourself."
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"They teach in academies far too many things, and far too much that is useless."
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"Don't act your age in retirement. Act like the inner young person you have always been."
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"Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life."
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"Teaching is of more importance than urging."
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"Rossini would have been a great composer if his teacher had spanked him enough on his backside."
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"Up to now my involvement in the Tibetan freedom struggle has been part of my spiritual practice, because the issues of the survival of the Buddha Teaching and the freedom of Tibet are very much related. In this particular struggle, there is no problem with many monks and nuns, including myself, joining."
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"The teaching arises out of the stillness. But when I'm alone, there's only the stillness, and that is my favorite place."
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"... there is no valid teaching from which there does not emerge something learned and through which the learner does not become capable of recreating and remaking what has been taught."
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"I dedicate the merit of the occasion to all beings. This gesture of universal friendship has been likened to a drop of fresh spring water. If we put it on a rock in the sunshine, it will soon evaporate. If we put it in the ocean, however, it will never be lost. Thus the wish is made that we not keep the teachings to ourselves but to use them to benefit others."
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"Natural ability is by far the best, but many men have succeeded in winning high renown by skill that is the fruit of teaching."
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"The wildest colts make the best horses."
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"I must yield to you, for you are irresistible."
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"You can't tell anyone anything. You have to teach people for them to remember. Let the person experience what you are teaching and they will learn."
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"In teaching there should be no distinction of classes."
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"Kong Qiu, or Master Kong as he was known, did not live to see his days of glory. During his lifetime, his views were received with scorn. But that was about two thousand five hundred years ago. A handful of his dedicated followers passed on Confucius' teachings to future generations. After Confucius' death, his followers published his teachings in the book, The Analects of Confucius."
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"Ten minutes is short if it's a recess and long if it's a punishment."
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"My secret for writing is going back to clarity. I'm very clear about what I want to accomplish-the goal-and then the next two are focus and concentration. And I've probably spent my whole life both practicing those two and teaching them. Focus. Focus on a single point and concentration. And concentrating on a single thing till it's done."
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