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Quotes About Understanding

Loneliness is the teacher of giving.
~ Hyemeyohsts Storm
Some teachers just have a knack for working with autistic children. Other teachers do not have it.
~ Temple Grandin
Teachers, parents and school administrators: Today's teachers can create a Planet of Peace. The communication process you will learn by reading Nonviolent Communication is the cornerstone.
~ Robert Muller
The teacher you need is the person you're living with.
~ Byron Katie
What a teacher doesn't say...is a telling part of what a student hears.
~ Maurice Natanson
I enjoyed learning the poems, but I didn't understand of what use they might possibly be. 'They'll keep you company on the day you have no books to read,' my teacher said.
~ Alberto Manguel
Education is what most receive, many pass on, and few possess.
~ Karl Kraus
Instruction begins when you, the teacher, learn from the learner; put yourself in his place so that you may understand . . . what he learns and the way he understands it.
~ Soren Kierkegaard
My teacher asked me what I want to be when I grow up, I said happy. She told me I don't understand the assignment, I told her she doesn't understand life.
~ John Lennon
Peers can be the best teachers, because they're the ones that remember what it's like to not understand.
~ Peter Norvig
Mathematics education is much more complicated than you expected, even though you expected it to be more complicated than you expected.
~ Edward Griffith Begle
Be open to all teachers And all teachings, And listen with your heart.
~ Ram Dass
When asked what learning was the most necessary, he said, "Not to unlearn what you have learned!"
~ Diogenes Laertius
Certain subjects yield a general power that may be applied in any direction and should be studied by all.
~ John Locke
We should not be speaking to, but with. That is second nature to any good teacher.
~ Noam Chomsky
The Master said, "A true teacher is one who, keeping the past alive, is also able to understand the present."
~ Confucius
Love is the greatest preacher and the greatest teacher.
~ Joseph Pearce
Experience is a thorough teacher.
~ Mary Jane Holmes
If you don't let a teacher know what level you are -- by asking a question, or revealing your ignorance -- you will not learn or grow
~ Stephen Covey
If the student fails to learn, the teacher fails to teach.
~ Sidney Sugarman
The theory of the teacher with all these immigrant kids was that if you spoke English loudly enough they would eventually understand.
~ E. L. Doctorow
It is not often that we use language correctly; usually we use it incorrectly, though we understand each others meaning.
~ Saint Augustine
It's the less bright students who make teachers teach better.
~ Malcolm Forbes
When I act tough they listen politely till the spasm passes. They know.
~ Frank McCourt, Teacher Man