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Teaching Quotes

    “We can teach people to desire lifelong learning, to express themselves, and to innovate.  And just as important, it’s vital we acknowledge that we can unteach bravery and creativity and initiative.  And that we have been doing just that.  School has become an industrialized system, working on a huge scale, that has significant by-products, including the destruction of many of the attitudes and emotions we’d like to build our culture around.”

    Seth Godin, Whatcha Gonna Do With That Duck?

      “Good teachers are to education what education is to all other professions—the indispensable element, the sunlight and oxygen, the foundation on which everything else is built.” ~ Lowell Milken

        “People may teach what they know, but they reproduce what they are.” ~ John C. Maxwell, Leadership Gold

          “If you say to one flower, ‘Grow,’ but you water another, the first one won’t grow.” ~ Stephen Covey, The 8th Habit

            “Although most parents do not have a degree in education, all parents are teachers.” ~ Judy S. Freedman, Easing the Teasing

              “I never yelled at my players much. That would have been artificial stimulation, which doesn’t last very long. I think it’s like love and passion. Passion won’t last as long as love. When you are dependent on passion, you need more and more of it to make it work. It’s the same with yelling.” ~ John Wooden

                I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think." ~ Socrates

                  If you are not willing to learn, no one can help you. If you are determined to learn, no one can stop you.

                    “I have found that the more I teach those who want to learn, the more I learn.”

                    Robert Kiyosaki, Rich Dad Poor Dad (Page 232)

                      "A man is not solely judged on what he has taught others, but also by what he has learned from them."

                      “A man is not solely judged on what he has taught others, but also by what he has learned from them.”

                        “When you learn, teach, when you get, give.” ~ Maya Angelou

                          “Tell me and I’ll forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and I’ll understand.” ~ Chinese Proverb

                            “A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.” ~ Henry Adams

                              “It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.” ~ Albert Einstein

                                “Give a man a fish, he’ll eat for a day. Teach a man how to fish, he’ll eat for a lifetime.” ~ Ancient Proverb