People who teach you cram old ideas, old views, old ways, into you. Like covering plants with layer after layer of old earth; it's no wonder the poor things so rarely come up fresh and green.

John Fowles
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  1. You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself. - Galileo Galilei

  2. It is easier to write a book with footnotes than the same book written so that children can understand it. - Fulton J. Sheen

  3. Those who know, do. Those that understand, teach. - Aristotle

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

  5. I’ve come to a frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element in the classroom. It’s my personal approach that creates the climate. It’s my daily mood that makes the weather. As a teacher, I possess a tremendous power to make a child’s life miserable... - Haim G. Ginott

More Quotes By John Fowles
  1. Once upon a time there was a young prince who believed in all things but three. He did not believe in princesses, he did not believe in islands, he did not believe in God. His father, the king, told him that such things did not...

  2. When you draw something it lives and when you photograph it it dies

  3. Why should I struggle through hundreds of pages of fabrication to reach half a dozen very little truths?'' For fun?'' Fun! ' He pounced on the word. 'Words are for truth. For facts. Not fiction.

  4. There is only one good definition of God: the freedom that allows other freedoms to exist.

  5. I don't believe in God. And I certainly don't feel chosen."" I think you may be." I smiled dubiously. "Thank you."" It is not meant as a compliment. Hazard makes you elect. You cannot elect yourself.

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