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• My father, Robert Ernst, was teaching as an architect at the technical high school of our city.

  Richard R. Ernst

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• I like teaching and the contact with young minds keeps one on one’s toes.

  Aaron Klug

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• Besides the actual reading in class of many poems, I would suggest you do two things: first, while teaching everything you can and keeping free of it, teach that poetry is a mode of discourse that differs from logical exposition.

  A. R. Ammons

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  Nobody can teach me who I am.

  Unknown

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• Teaching is the only major occupation of man for which we have not yet developed tools that make an average person capable of competence and performance. In teaching we rely on the “naturals,” the ones who somehow know how to teach.

  Peter Ferdinand Drucker

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• Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

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• I’m not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did.

  Yogi Berra

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• The proper method for hastening the decay of error is by teaching every man to think for himself.

  William Godwin

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• You see, I have in my teaching – I always say I’ve done it for a hundred years and have had thousands of students – I have always spoken against just falling onto your knees for so-called accidents, I mean a result you are not responsible for.

  Josef Albers

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• Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants.

  John William Gardner

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• Yale places great stress on undergraduate and graduate teaching. I like teaching, and I do a lot of it.

  James Tobin

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• The only thing that mattered was what you were to do in life, and it wasn’t about money. It was about teaching, or learning.

  Maya Lin

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• The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.

  Albert Einstein

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• I regard the principle of conscription of life as a flat contradiction of all our cherished ideals of individual freedom, democratic liberty and Christian teaching.

  Roger Nash Baldwin

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• Machiavelli’s teaching would hardly have stood the test of Parliamentary government, for public discussion demands at least the profession of good faith.

  John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton

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• Because I don’t have to be careful of people’s feelings when I teach literature, and I do when I’m teaching writing.

  Tobias Wolff

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• But the question is a matter of the survival and the teaching. That’s what our work comes down to. No matter where we key into it, it’s the same work, just different pieces of ourselves doing it.

  Audre Lorde

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• The elementary school must assume as its sublime and most solemn responsibility the task of teaching every child in it to read. Any school that does not accomplish this has failed.

  William J. Bennett

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• Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.

  Oscar Wilde

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• You can’t teach others if you are living the same way.

  James Brown

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