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571 Educator Quotes

In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.
Almost Almost Everything Everything Experience
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To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man.

Becoming Except Honorable Man
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The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.

Easily Form Idea Misery
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Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.
Beginning A End Everything
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A laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue.

Bought Costs Expense Laugh
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For it would have been better that man should have been born dumb, nay, void of all reason, rather than that he should employ the gifts of Providence to the destruction of his neighbor.

Been Better Born Destruction
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Fear of the future is worse than one's present fortune.

Fear Fortune Future Present
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While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it.

Everything Examining Expected Find
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Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.

Among Appear Foolish Fools
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Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues.

Ambition Itself Often Parent
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Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.

Alone Desire Excite Forbidden
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A liar should have a good memory.
Good Good Memory Liar Memory
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Without natural gifts technical rules are useless.

Gifts Natural Rules Technical
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Consequently the student who is devoid of talent will derive no more profit from this work than barren soil from a treatise on agriculture.

Agriculture Barren Consequently Derive
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It is the nurse that the child first hears, and her words that he will first attempt to imitate.

Attempt Child First He
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As regards parents, I should like to see them as highly educated as possible, and I do not restrict this remark to fathers alone.

Alone Educated Fathers Highly
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For the mind is all the easier to teach before it is set.

Before Easier Mind Set
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To my mind the boy who gives least promise is one in whom the critical faculty develops in advance of the imagination.

Advance Boy Critical Develops
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It is worth while too to warn the teacher that undue severity in correcting faults is liable at times to discourage a boy's mind from effort.

Boy Correcting Discourage Effort
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The mind is exercised by the variety and multiplicity of the subject matter, while the character is moulded by the contemplation of virtue and vice.

Character Contemplation Matter Mind
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When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.

Defeat Inevitable Wisest Yield
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Verse satire indeed is entirely our own.

Entirely Indeed Our Own
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Though ambition itself be a vice, yet it is often times the cause of virtues.

Ambition Cause Itself Often
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When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.
Advantage Cannot Hope We Cannot
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Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.

Attempted Changes Effect Great
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It is much easier to try one's hand at many things than to concentrate one's powers on one thing.

Concentrate Easier Hand Many
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The gifts of nature are infinite in their variety, and mind differs from mind almost as much as body from body.

Almost Body Differs Gifts
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The pretended admission of a fault on our part creates an excellent impression.

Admission Creates Excellent Fault
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Joy, feeling one's own value, being appreciated and loved by others, feeling useful and capable of production are all factors of enormous value for the human soul.

Appreciated Being Capable Enormous
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We discovered that education is not something which the teacher does, but that it is a natural process which develops spontaneously in the human being.

Being Develops Discovered Does
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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.'

Able Children Did Exist
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It would be so simple to allow children, when tired of sitting, to rise, and when tired of writing, to desist, and then their bones would not be twisted.

Allow Bones Children Rise
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It is surprising to notice that even from the earliest age, man finds the greatest satisfaction in feeling independent. The exalting feeling of being sufficient to oneself comes as a revelation.

Age Being Earliest Even
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The development of language is part of the development of the personality, for words are the natural means of expressing thoughts and establishing understanding between people.

Between Development Establishing Expressing
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To aid life, leaving it free, however, that is the basic task of the educator.
Aid Basic Educator Free
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Early childhood education is the key to the betterment of society.

Childhood Early EarlyChildhood Education
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The child is not an empty being who owes whatever he knows to us who have filled him up with it. No, the child is the builder of man. There is no man existing who has not been formed by the child he once was.

Been Being Builder Child
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Personal health is related to self-control and to the worship of life in all its natural beauty - self-control bringing with it happiness, renewed youth, and long life.

Beauty Bringing Happiness Health
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If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.
Children Come Help Makers
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Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war.

Education Establishing Keep Lasting
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We teachers can only help the work going on, as servants wait upon a master.

Going Help Master Only
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One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child.

Child Correctness Educational Happiness
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Now, what really makes a teacher is love for the human child; for it is love that transforms the social duty of the educator into the higher consciousness of a mission.

Child Consciousness Duty Educator
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Observation, very general and wide-spread, has shown that small children are endowed with a special psychic nature. This shows us a new way of imparting education!

Children Education Endowed General
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If education is protection to life, you will realize that it is necessary that education accompany life during its whole course.

Accompany Course Education Life
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The purpose of life is to obey the hidden command which ensures harmony among all and creates an ever better world. We are not created only to enjoy the world, we are created in order to evolve the cosmos.

Among Better BetterWorld Command
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With man, the life of the body depends on the life of the spirit.
Body Depends Life Man
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The consciousness of knowing how to make oneself useful, how to help mankind in many ways, fills the soul with noble confidence, almost religious dignity.

Almost Confidence Consciousness Dignity
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When the child begins to think and to make use of the written language to express his rudimentary thinking, he is ready for elementary work; and this fitness is a question not of age or other incidental circumstance but of mental maturity.

Age Begins Child Circumstance
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The person who is developing freely and naturally arrives at a spiritual equilibrium in which he is master of his actions, just as one who has acquired physical poise can move freely.

Acquired Actions Developing Equilibrium
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