"The worst thing that can happen to a good teacher is to get a bad conscience about her profession because she feels herself hopeless as a psychologist."
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"The teachers of this country, one may say, have its future in their hands."
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"I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done, than be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching."
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"This is his uncle's teaching, this Worcester, Malevolent to you In all aspects, Which makes him prune himself and bristle up The crest of youth against your dignity."
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"I'll teach you differences."
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"I think my strength in teaching and what I get a lot of good feedback on is going towards the students and asking them what they are about. It's about putting your own personality into the work."
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"I am interested in most mythology. Celtic or Christian no more than anything else. I will admit to a pleasure and sense of hope in what I see as the basic teachings of Christ, stripped of the nonsense that has sometimes been accumulated about them and the embarrassing misunderstanding."
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"The tension between the essence of spiritual teachings and the harmful fundamentalism that often arises in the name of religion is an issue that has engaged my mind practically as far back as I can remember."
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"I'm a shy, nervous person, and I don't like teaching with "terms." I didn't teach them, like, "This is first person, this is second person, this is foreshadowing," or whatever, so no one probably felt like they were learning anything. But I feel like teaching in that way reduces the concept to a term."
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"I think what I do differently from a lot of TV chefs is that I break down barriers and make fine food more accessible to the regular person, who might be intimidated. I try hard, particularly with wine, to make it not intimidating. It's sort of a teaching job."
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"Sculpture and painting have the effect of teaching us manners and abolishing hurry."
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"We denote this primary wisdom as Intuition, whilst all later teachings are tuitions."
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"The teaching of politics is that the Government, which was set for protection and comfort of all good citizens, becomes the principal obstruction and nuisance with which we have to contend... The cheat and bully and malefactor we meet everywhere is the Government."
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"Free should be the scholar - free and brave."
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"Throughout the ages there have always been those who have been willing to go beyond the norms and reach for that unknown and distant star."
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"Moral qualities rule the world, but at short distances the senses are despotic."
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"Teaching is the perpetual end and office of all things. Teaching, instruction is the main design that shines through the sky and earth."
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"I confess myself utterly at a loss in suggesting particular reforms in our ways of teaching. No discretion that can be lodged with a school-committee, with the overseers or visitors of an academy, of a college, can at all avail to reach these difficulties and perplexities, but they solve themselves when we leave institutions and address individuals."
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"That which we are, we are all the while teaching, not voluntarily, but involuntarily."
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"Our souls are evolving towards becoming the one. That's what we're doing and we're using our incarnations as teaching devices."
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