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When we want to awaken a thought in anyone, what are the means at our disposal? One only, to produce in him by word and sign states of sensibility and of imagination, emotion and memory in which he will discover our idea and make it his own.

Leaders are more powerful role models when they learn than when they teach.

Teaching is only demonstrating that it is possible. Learning is making it possible for yourself.

With too much pride a man cannot learn a thing. In and of itself, learning teaches you how foolish you are.

the fundamental purpose of school is learning, not teaching.

I am thankful and blessed to be in a position where I have learned as much from those that have taught me as I have from those that I continue to teach.

The best kind of happiness is a habit you're passionate about.

My words itch at your ears till you understand them

Learning is finding out what you already know. Doing is demonstrating that you know it. Teaching is reminding others that they know just as well as you. You are all learners, doers, teachers.

An exceedingly confident student would in theory make a terrible student. Why would he take school seriously when he feels that he can outwit his teachers?

If you want to teach people a new way of thinking, don't bother trying to teach them. Instead, give them a tool, the use of which will lead to new ways of thinking.

The best way to teach a child is live an exemplary life.

It is not until you change your identity to match your life blueprint that you will understand why everything in the past never worked.

TeachingOne hour's teaching is better than a whole night of prayer.

The barrier during self-improvement is not so much that we hate learning, rather we hate being taught. To learn entails that the knowledge was achieved on one's own accord - it feels great - but to be taught often leaves a feeling of inferiority. Thus it takes a bit of determination and a lot of humility in order for one to fully develop.

Since her retirement from teaching Miss Beryl's health had in many respects greatly improved, despite her advancing years. An eighth-grade classroom was an excellent place to snag whatever was in the air in the way of illness. Also depression, which, Miss Beryl believed, in conjunction with guilt, opened the door to illness. Miss Beryl didn't know any teachers who weren't habitually guilty and depressed--guilty they hadn't accomplished more with their students, depressed that very little more was possible.

You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.

Wisdom cannot be imparted. Wisdom that a wise man attempts to impart always sounds like foolishness to someone else ... Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.