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“One repays a teacher badly if one always remains nothing but a pupil.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

“The only true dead are those who have been forgotten.”
― Jason S. Hornsby, Eleven Twenty-three

“Only the forgotten are truly dead.”
― Tess Gerritsen, The Sinner

“When do you think people die? When they're shot through the heart with a pistol? ...No. When they have an uncurable disease? ...No. When they drink soup made from a poisonous mushroom? No! When they are forgotten! Even if I die, my dream will come true. The hearts of the people will be cured..!”
― Eiichiro Oda

“A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.”
― Elbert Hubbard

“Yes: I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Critic As Artist: With Some Remarks on the Importance of Doing Nothing and Discussing Everything

“War is sometimes described as long periods of boredom punctuated by short moments of excitement. History is often similar, if rather safer.”
― John H. Arnold

“History is above all else an argument. It is an argument between different historians; and, perhaps, an argument between the past and the present, an argument between what actually happened, and what is going to happen next. Arguments are important; they create the possibility of changing things.”
― John H. Arnold, History: A Very Short Introduction

“We are all hypocrites. We cannot see ourselves or judge ourselves the way we see and judge others.”
― José Emilio Pacheco, Battles in the Desert & Other Stories

“There is a point in the history of society when it becomes so pathologically soft and tender that among other things it sides even with those who harm it, criminals, and does this quite seriously and honestly. Punishing somehow seems unfair to it, and it is certain that imagining "punishment" and "being supposed to punish" hurts it, arouses fear in it. "Is it not enough to render him undangerous? Why still punish?
Punishing itself is terrible." With this question, herd morality, the morality of timidity, draws its ultimate consequence.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

“Even the most courageous among us only rarely has the courage to face what he already knows.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols

“O my body, make of me always a man who questions!”
― Frantz Fanon, Black Skin, White Masks

“None of these classy locutions mean anything different from the simpler ones they replace. They work ceremonially, not semantically. Writing in a classy way to sound smart means writing to sound like, maybe even be, a certain kind of person. Sociologists, and other scholars, do that because they think (or hope) that being the right kind of person will persuade others to accept what they say as a persuasive social science argument.”
― Howard S. Becker, Writing for Social Scientists: How to Start and Finish Your Thesis, Book, or Article

“When you want to teach children to think, you begin by treating them seriously when they are little, giving them responsibilities, talking to them candidly, providing privacy and solitude for them, and making them readers and thinkers of significant thoughts from the beginning. That’s if you want to teach them to think.”
― Bertrand Russell

“I never teach my pupils, I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.”
― Albert Einstein

“Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.”
― Plato, The Republic

“Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.”
― Jacques Barzun

“The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without a teacher.”
― Elbert Hubbard

“A child who is protected from all controversial ideas is as vulnerable as a child who is protected from every germ. The infection, when it comes- and it will come- may overwhelm the system, be it the immune system or the belief system.”
― Jane Smiley

“That's what education should be," I said, "the art of orientation. Educators should devise the simplest and most effective methods of turning minds around. It shouldn't be the art of implanting sight in the organ, but should proceed on the understanding that the organ already has the capacity, but is improperly aligned and isn't facing the right way.”
― Plato, The Republic

“You can't really teach a kid anything: you can only show him the way and motivate him to learn it himself.”
― Dave Cullen, Columbine

“To know how to suggest is the art of teaching.”
― Henri Frederic Amiel

“Once she knows how to read there's only one thing you can teach her to believe in and that is herself.”
― Virginia Woolf, Monday or Tuesday

“Those who don't know must learn from those who do.”
― Plato, The Republic

“The best way to learn is to do; the worst way to teach is to talk.”
― Paul Halmos

“No one learns as much about a subject as one who is forced to teach it.”
― Peter Drucker

“I would teach how science works as much as I would teach what science knows. I would assert (given that essentially, everyone will learn to read) that science literacy is the most important kind of literacy they can take into the 21st century. I would undervalue grades based on knowing things and find ways to reward curiosity. In the end, it's the people who are curious who change the world.”
― Neil deGrasse Tyson

“Teachers have three loves: love of learning, love of learners, and the love of bringing the first two loves together.”
― Scott Hayden

“I will have to rely on that painful teacher, experience.”
― Kirby Larson, Hattie Big Sky