You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.
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Galileo Galilei
It is easier to write a book with footnotes than the same book written so that children can understand it.
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Fulton J. Sheen
Those who know, do. Those that understand, teach.
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Aristotle
I never teach my pupils, I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.
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Albert Einstein
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...
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Haim G. Ginott
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The trick for business professionals, and for educators, is to present bodies of information so compelling that the audience does this (encoding) on their own, spontaneously engaging in deep and elaborate encoding.
If you are trying to get information across to someone, your ability to create a compelling introduction may be the most important single factor in the later success of your mission.
Public speaking professionals say that you win or lose the battle to hold your audience in the first 30 seconds of a given presentation.
