Nathan M. Pusey famous quotes
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The close observer soon discovers that the teacher's task is not to implant facts but to place the subject to be learned in front of the learner and, through sympathy, emotion, imagination, and patience, to awaken in the learner the restless drive for answers and insights which enlarge the personal life and give it meaning.
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We live in a time of such rapid change and growth of knowledge that only he who is in a fundamental sense a scholar-that is, a person who continues to learn and inquire-can hope to keep pace, let alone play the role of guide.
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If there is anything education does not lack today it is critics.
-- Nathan M. Pusey
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Oh when I was in love with you, Then I was clean and brave, And miles around the wonder grew How well did I behave. And now the fancy passes by, And nothing will remain, And miles around they'll say that I Am quite myself again.
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You have your identity when you find out, not what you can keep your mind ON, but what you can't keep your mind OFF.
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Teachers believe they have a gift for giving; it drives them with the same irrepressible drive that drives others to create a work of art or a market or a building.
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The teacher that I was for decades, and that I still am in a certain way, wondered what was meant by the word education. I was truly dumbfounded at the very thought of dealing with such an essential and extensive subject.
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Teach the children so it will not be necessary to teach the adults.
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All of life is education and everybody is a teacher and everybody is forever a pupil.
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When teachers doubt your potential, show them how wrong they truly are.
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Erudition, like a bloodhound, is a charming thing when held firmly in leash, but it is not so attractive when turned loose upon a defenseless and unerudite public.
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Everybody is now so busy teaching that nobody has any time to learn.
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Learning is a plant that grows in all climes.
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