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Experience is the teacher of all things.
(Julius Caesar [Gaius Julius Caesar] (100-44 B.C.), Roman general, political leader, and first Roman dictator. The Civil War, 2. 8.)
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It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.
(Albert Einstein (1879-1955), German-born U.S. physicist. Motto for the astronomy building of Junior College, Pasadena, California.)
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We loved the doctrine for the teacher's sake.
(Daniel Defoe (1660-1731), British author, poet, journalist. repr. In Works, ed. Keltie (1869). "The Character of the Late Dr. S. Annesly," (1697).)
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No bubble is so iridescent or floats longer than that blown by the successful teacher.
(Sir William Osler (1849-1919), Canadian physician. address, Oct. 4, 1911, Glasgow. Quoted in Harvey Cushing, Life of Sir William Osler, vol. 2, ch. 31 (1925).)
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... anybody with the brains and energy to become a teacher ought to want to become something better.
(Florynce R. Kennedy (b. 1916), U.S. lawyer, activist, speaker, and author. Color Me Flo, ch. 2 (1976).)
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Unless, governor, teacher inspector, visitor,
This map becomes their window and these windows
That open on their lives like crouching tombs
Break, O break open,
(Stephen Spender (1909-1995), British poet. An Elementary School Classroom in a Slum (l. 25-28). . .
Modern British Poetry. Louis Untermeyer, ed. (7th rev. ed., 1962) Harcourt, Brace and Company.)
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Time is a great teacher,
Who can live without hope?
(Carl Sandburg (1878-1967), U.S. poet. The People, Yes (l. 76-77). . .
Oxford Book of American Verse, The. F. O. Matthiessen, ed. (1950) Oxford University Press.)
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If you become a teacher, by your pupils you'll be taught.
(Oscar Hammerstein II (1895-1960), U.S. songwriter. "Getting to Know You," The King and I, Williamson Music Inc. (1951).
Music composed by Richard Rodgers (1902-1979).)
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An eminent teacher of girls said, "the idea of a girl's education, is, whatever qualifies them for going to Europe."
(Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), U.S. essayist, poet, philosopher. "Culture," The Conduct of Life (1860).)
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If you will take me as your teacher, you will not kick against the pricks.
(Aeschylus (525-456 B.C.), Greek tragedian. Prometheus Bound, l. 323.)
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