"But the great Master said, "I see No best in kind, but in degree; I gave a various gift to each, To charm, to strengthen, and to teach"."
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"Children from humble families must be taught how to command just as other children must be taught how to obey."
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"An educator never says what he himself thinks, but only that which he thinks it is good for those whom he is educating to hear."
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"There is perhaps nothing so admirable in Christianity and Buddhism as their art of teaching even the lowest to elevate themselves by piety to a seemingly higher order of things, and thereby to retain their satisfaction with the actual world in which they find it difficult enough to live - this very difficulty being necessary."
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"My Soul gave me good counsel, teaching me that the lamp which I carry does not belong to me, and the song that I sing was not generated from within me."
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"Vain are the beliefs and teachings that make man miserable, and false is the goodness that leads him into sorrow and despair, for it is man's purpose to be happy on this earth and lead the way to felicity and preach its gospel wherever he goes."
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"He could charm an audience an hour on a stretch without ever getting rid of an idea."
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"You have heretofore found out, by my teachings, that man is a fool; you are now aware that woman is a damned fool."
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"When I am king they shall not have bread and shelter only, but also teachings out of books, for a full belly is little worth where the mind is starved."
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"The only part of Christian teachings which will be truly accepted by the Chinese people is Christ's injunction to be "harmless as doves" but "wise as serpents."
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"I thought my life was mapped out. Research, living in the forest, teaching and writing. But in '86 I went to a conference and realised the chimpanzees were disappearing. I had worldwide recognition and a gift of communication. I had to use them."
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"I had a wonderful teacher about animal behavior."
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"Teaching, I find, is not the most amusing thing on earth; in fact, with a stupid lump for a Pupil, it is about the most irksome."
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"Zen provides a structure that supports our exploring the practice and the teachings for ourselves."
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"But remain the teacher of the young teachers. Advise and direct us, and we will be ready to learn. I will have need of you as long as I live."
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"I'd rather get a brain tumor than go back to teaching."
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"Go to the place where the thing you wish to know is native; your best teacher is there. Where the thing you wish to know is so dominant that you must breathe its very atmosphere, there teaching is moat thorough, and learning is most easy. You acquire a language most readily in the country where it is spoken; you study mineralogy boat among miners; and so with everything else."
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"First let a man teach himself, and then he will be taught by others."
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"There is nothing more frightful than for a teacher to know only what his scholars are intended to know."
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"I would argue that stupidity is born out of bad reading, bad teaching and bad thinking!"
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