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TEACHING: I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat. (Rebecca West, U.S. author and journalist, 1892-1983)
TEACHING: The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires. (Unknown Source)
TEACHING: I am not a teacher but an awakener. (Unknown Source)
TEACHING: Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass. (Anton Chekhov, Russian physician, short-story writer, and dramatist, 1860-1904Knowledge: Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet has free access to the sum of all human knowledge. (Jimmy Wales, Internet entrepreneur and the co-founder of Wikipedia, the online non-profit encyclopedia, Born 1966)
TEACHING: I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think. (Socrates, classical Greek philosopher credited as one of the founders of Western philosophy, 470-399 BCE)
TEACHING: Every student needs someone who says, simply, You mean something. You count. (Tony Kushner, U.S. playwright, screenwriter, and recipient of the National Medal of Arts, Born 1956)
TEACHING: Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre. (Gail Godwin, U.S. author whose novels have included five best-sellers, 1937)
TEACHING: Tell me and I'll forget. Show me, and I may not remember. Involve me, and I'll understand. (Native American proverb)
TEACHING: By learning you will teach; by teaching you will learn. (Latin proverb)
TEACHING: Teaching kids to count is fine, but teaching them what counts is best. (U.S. news columnist, 1936-1999)
TEACHING: The most important single factor influencing learning is what the learner already knows. Ascertain this and teach him accordingly. (David Ausubel, U.S. pioneer of cognitive psychology, 1918-2008)
TEACHING: We are the best teachers when we are active learners. (Unknown source)
TEACHING: Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass. (Anton Chekhov, Russian short-story writer and dramatist, 1860-1904)
TEACHING: Teachers make all other professions possible. (Unknown source)
TEACHING: Students tend not to care about how much a professor knows until they know how much he/she cares. (David Sanfilippo, U.S. college administrator)
TEACHING: The greatest sign of success for a teacher is to be able to say, 'The children are now working as if I did not exist.' (Maria Montessori, Italian physician and educator, 1870-1952Politics: It seems like the less a politician amounts to the more he adores the flag. (Kin Hubbard, U.S. cartoonist and humorist, 1868-1930)
TEACHING: I never teach my pupils; I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn. (Albert Einstein, German-born theoretical physicist and Nobel Laureate who developed the theory of relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics, 1879-1955)