Tea Quotes
A liberal education is at the heart of a civil society, and at the heart of a liberal education is the act of teaching.A Bartlett Giamatti
Happiness consists in activity. It is running steam, not a stagnant pool.John Mason Good
Listen to life, it is the wisest teacher of all.Unknown
It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates the minds of those who control the teaching of the young.Bertrand Russell
There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth.Marie Curie
What use are cartridges in battle I always carry chocolate instead.George Bernard Shaw
Teaching has ruined more American novelists than drink.Gore Vidal
The teacher must derive not only the capacity, but the desire, to observe natural phenomena. The teacher must understand and feel her position of observer: the activity must lie in the phenomenon.Maria Montessori
Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all only our characters are steadfast, not our gold.Euripides
Children are never too tender to be whipped. Like tough beefsteaks, the more you beat them, the more tender they become.Edgar Allan Poe
Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time, and it annoys the pig.Saying Folk
To me the meanest flower that blows can give Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.William Wordsworth, "Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood", 1803
Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime. Teach a man to create an artificial shortage of fish and he will eat steak.Jay Leno
Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.Denis Watley
The drying up a single tear has more of honest fame than shedding seas of gore.Lord Byron
The incomparable stupidity of life teaches us to love our parents divine philosophy teaches us to forgive them.Baron de la Brede et de Montesquieu
Wars were not made by generations and their special stupidities, but that wars were made instead by something ignorant in the human heart.John Knowles
My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.Abraham Lincoln
The teacher must derive not only the capacity, but the desire, to observe natural phenomena. The teacher must understand and feel her position of observer the activity must lie in the phenomenon.Maria Montessori
The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.Harriet Beecher Stowe
The true aim of everyone who aspires to be a teacher should be, not to impart his own opinions, but to kindle minds.Frederick William Robertson
There is no accountability in the public school system - Except for coaches. You know what happens to a losing coach. You fire him. A losing teacher can go on losing for 30 years and then go to glory.Ross Perot, The Dallas Morning News, March 11, 1984
God does not die on the day when we cease to believe in a personal deity, but we die on the day when our lives cease to be illumined by the steady radiance, renewed daily, of a wonder, the source of which is beyond all reason.Dag Hammarskjld
The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence.Amos Bronson Alcott
I do not fear the inevitable death for it is certain. Instead I fear life for here anything is possible.Mavette Sadile
Do not follow where the path may lead... Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.Robert Frost
It is easy to bring others down to your level, Instead of bringing yourself up to their level, But it is never ever right.Unknown
The tooth fairy teaches children that they can sell body parts for money.David Richerby
Tears are the safety valve of the heart when too much pressure is laid on it.Albert Smith
Reason and Justice tell me that there is more love of man in electricity and steam, than in chastity and refusal to eat meat.Chekov of Tolstoy
Let the Word of Christ dwell in you richly, as you teach and admonish one another in all wisdom, and as you sing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs with thankfulness in your hearts to God.Bible, Colossians 3: 16
Women with body image or eating disorders are not a special category, just more extreme in their response to a culture that emphasizes thinness and impossible standards of appearance for women instead of individuality and health.Gloria Steinem
What government is the best That which teaches us to govern ourselves.Johann von Goethe
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose - A point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
I had a terrible education. I attended a school for emotionally disturbed teachers.Woody Allen
The most foolish mistake we could possibly make would be to permit the conquered Eastern peoples to have arms. History teaches that all conquerors who have allowed their subject races to carry arms have prepared their own downfall by doing so.Adolf Hitle
Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself.Chinese Prove
