Some quotes about teachers and education

A teacher affects eternity: he can never tell where his influence stops.
Henry Adams

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What nobler employment, or more valuable to the state, than that of the man who instructs the rising generation.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

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The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn.
John Lubbock

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Those who educate children well are more to be honored than parents, for these only gave life,
those the art of living well.
Aristotle

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By learning you will teach; by teaching you will understand.
Latin Proverb

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Education is the mother of leadership.
Wendell L. Willkie

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Seldom was any knowledge given to keep, but to impart; the grace of this rich jewel is lost in concealment.
Bishop Hall

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If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
Tryon Edwards

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We cannot hold a torch to light another's path without brightening our own.
Ben Sweetland

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Grammar speaks; dialectics teach us truth; rhetoric gives colouring to our speech; music sings; arithmetic numbers; geometry weighs and measures; astronomy teaches us to know the stars.
Latin Maxim

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To know how to suggest is the great art of teaching.
Henri Frederic Amiel

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We learn by teaching.
James Howell

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

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The most effective teacher will always be biased, for the chief force in teaching is confidence and enthusiasm.
Joyce Cary

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Education is the guardian genius of democracy. It is the only dictator that free men recognize, and the only ruler that free men require.
Mirabeau Buonaparte Lamar

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Whatever you want to teach, be brief.
Horace

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To me, education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul.
Muriel Spark

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Nine-tenths of education is encouragement.
Anatole France

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He that teaches us anything which we knew not before is undoubtedly to be reverenced as a master.
Samuel Johnson

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I hear and I forget. I see and I remember.
I do and I understand.
Chinese Proverb

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Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant.
Epictetus

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Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.
Jacques Barzun

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Education is the transmission of civilization.
Will Durant

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To teach is to learn twice over.
Joseph Joubert

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A schoolmaster should have an atmosphere of awe, and walk wonderingly, as if he was amazed at being himself.
Newton D. Baker

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One good teacher in a lifetime may sometimes change a delinquent into a solid citizen.
Philip Wylie

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A child miseducated is a child lost.
John F. Kennedy

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A master can tell you what he expects of you.
A teacher, though, awakens your own expectations.
Patricia Neal

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