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"But ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee;
and the fowls of the air, and they shall tell thee:
or speak to the earth, and it shall teach thee:
and the fishes of the sea shall declare unto thee."
-- Job 12:7-8

"A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops."
--Henry Adams, historian and teacher (1838-1918)

"A teacher who is attempting to teach, without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn, is hammering on a cold iron."
--Horace Mann

"Acquire new knowledge whilst thinking over the old, and you may become a teacher of others."
-- Confucius, philosopher

"I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit..."
--John Steinbeck

"Parents can tell but never teach, unless they practice what they preach."
--Arnold Glasow

"The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery."
-- Mark Van Doren (1894-1972), American critic and Pulitzer Prize-winning poet

"Whatever you do, be choice in your selection of teachers. We do not want infidels to mold the minds of our children..."
--John Taylor

"The best teachers are those who are humble and want to teach from their own experience. They teach because they have compassion for others and do not want them to have to learn everything the hard way. They also have patience and are willing to endure the learning process. They teach the lesson with meekness, recognizing that the table will be turned someday and they will become the students again, and with kindness, knowing they are not superior, but equal to the student."
-- Randy Gilbert, from the book Success Bound - Breaking Free of Mediocrity

"The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires."
-- William Arthur Ward, Author, Editor and Pastor

"The number of teachers and guides that a soul has depends upon what it seeks to accomplish and its level of awareness. Souls that take upon themselves projects of more magnitude bring to themselves more assistance." - Gary Zukav

"One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant with gratitude to those who touched our human feeling. Curriculum is necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child."
-- Carl Gustav Jung (1875 - 1961)