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"What we now call school training, the pursuit of fixed studies at stated hours under the constant guidance of a teacher, I could scarcely be said to have enjoyed."

Simon Newcomb on Teacher

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  • "I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers."

    Khalil Gibran on Teacher

  • "It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge."

    Albert Einstein on Teacher

  • "If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself."

    Confucius on Teacher

  • "You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul."

    Swami Vivekananda on Teacher

  • "I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit."

    John Steinbeck on Teacher

More quotes by Simon Newcomb

  • "My father was the most rational and the most dispassionate of men."

  • "In 1858 I received the degree of D. S. from the Lawrence Scientific School, and thereafter remained on the rolls of the university as a resident graduate."

  • "The result was that, if it happened to clear off after a cloudy evening, I frequently arose from my bed at any hour of the night or morning and walked two miles to the observatory to make some observation included in the programme."

  • "The time was not yet ripe for the growth of mathematical science among us, and any development that might have taken place in that direction was rudely stopped by the civil war."

  • "One hardly knows where, in the history of science, to look for an important movement that had its effective start in so pure and simple an accident as that which led to the building of the great Washington telescope, and went on to the discovery of the satellites of Mars."

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