"The truth is, when all is said and done, one does not teach a subject, one teaches a student how to learn it."

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Source : "Reasons to De-Test the Schools". The New York Times, October 11, 1988.

Jacques Barzun

#Teacher Quotes #Doe Quotes #Done Quotes

“Among Hindu groups, none has made as great an impact on America as the Vedanta Society.”

Source : J. Gordon Melton (1978). “The Encyclopedia of American Religions”
“Macbeth's deed is done in horror, and without the faintest desire or sense of glory- done, one may almost say, as if it were an appalling duty; the instant it is finished, its futility is revealed to Macbeth as clearly as its vileness had been revealed beforehand”
“Photography is truth.”
“There is my body, in it an ocean formed of his glory, all the creation, all the universes, all the galaxies, are lost in it.”
“You know, my point in being an actor is to get people to believe that this is not about me, but something else.”
“Imagine if for years your habit is to use the phone when you're having a massage on the bed, even one minute before going out to train? For 25 days I accepted this, because my first priority was to work on the field. However, I've said that from now if someone comes inside with a mobile phone, even in their bag, I'll throw it in the North Sea. They're banned.”

Source : "Ketchup off menu for Di Canio's Sunderland". www.foxnews.com. August 17, 2013.
“Be afraid of nothing. Hating none, giving love to all, feeling the love of God, seeing His presence in everyone, and having but one desire - for His constant presence in the temple of your consciousness - that is the way to live in this world.”
“The circumstance that any man could suppose that Matthew when he said, 'Jacob begat Joseph,' or Luke, when he said, 'Joseph was the son of Heli' could refer to the wife of the one, or the daughter-in-law of the other, shows to what desperate stratagems polemical orthodoxy will resort in order to defend an untenable position.”

Source : William Rathbone Greg (1851). “The creed of Christendom: its foundations and superstructure”, p.98

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