Great Throughts Treasury

This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.

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Arthur Koestler

Creativity is a type of learning process where the teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.

Creativity | Individual | Learning | Teacher |

Arthur Schopenhauer

Instead of developing the child’s own faculties of discernment, and teaching it to judge and think for itself, the teacher uses all his energies to stuff its head full of the ready-made thoughts of other people.

Discernment | People | Teacher | Think |

Blanche DeVries Bernard

A real teacher can never run dry because he continually learns from each and every experience, not filled with likes and dislikes, bur desire through learning to evolute whatever he touches. A correct teacher of Yoga is not one who discusses it, but who is it.

Desire | Experience | Learning | Teacher |

Blanche DeVries Bernard

The teacher must step back and review each day as a student, always feeling that there is more and more to learn, love appreciate. -- Be in this world, but not of it... Everything comes back on the Universal clock of time... everything. Memorize the aphorism that irrelevancy of circumstance is the highest wisdom of life... Your 'balance' is your ammunition; one should not fire it, but rather maintain it.

Aphorism | Balance | Day | Life | Life | Love | Time | Wisdom | World | Circumstance | Teacher |

Confucius, aka Kong Qiu, Zhongni, K'ung Fu-tzu or Kong Fuzi NULL

If a man keeps cherishing his old knowledge, so as continually to be acquiring new, he may be a teacher of others.

Knowledge | Man | Old | Teacher |

Elbert Green Hubbard

The teacher is one who makes two ideas grow where only one grew before.

Ideas | Teacher |

Horace Mann

The teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on the wrong iron.

Desire | Teach | Wrong | Learn | Teacher |

Horace Mann

A teacher should, above all things, first induce a desire in the pupil for the acquisition he wishes to impart.

Desire | Wishes | Teacher |

Horace Mann

A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.

Desire | Teach | Learn | Teacher |

Kaibara Ekken, or Ekiken, also known as Atsunobu NULL

The remembrance of the past is the teacher of the future.

Future | Past | Teacher |

Loren Eiseley

The teacher is often the first to discover the talented and unusual scholar. How he handles and encourages, or discourages, such a child may make all the difference in the world to that child's future - and to the world.

Future | Scholar | World | Child | Teacher |

Kahlil Gibran

Whoever would be a teacher of men let him begin by teaching himself before teaching others; and let him teach by example before teaching by word. For he who teaches himself and rectifies his own ways is more deserving of respect and reverence than he who would teach others and rectify their ways.

Example | Men | Respect | Reverence | Teach | Respect | Teacher |

Loren Eiseley

The teacher is a sculptor of the intangible future. There is no more dangerous occupation on the planet, for what we conceive as our masterpiece may appear out of time to mock us - a horrible caricature of ourselves... We, too, like the generation before us, are the cracked, the battered, the malformed products of remoter chisels shaping the most obstinate substance in the universe; the substance of man.

Future | Man | Occupation | Time | Universe | Teacher |

Max Lerner, fully Maxwell "Max" Alan Lerner, aka Mikhail Lerner

In the end, as any successful teacher will tell you, you can only teach the things that you are. If we practice racism then it is racism that we teach.

Practice | Teach | Will | Teacher |

Mortimer J. Adler, fully Mortimer Jerome Adler

The teacher is like the farmer or the physician. The farmer doesn’t produce the grains of the field; he merely helps them grow. The physician does not produce the health of the body; he merely helps the body maintain its health or regain its health. And the teacher does not produce knowledge in the mind; he merely helps the mind discover it for itself.

Body | Health | Knowledge | Mind | Teacher |

Norman Cousins

The best teacher is not necessarily the one who possesses the most knowledge but the one who most effectively enables his students to believe in their ability to learn.

Ability | Knowledge | Teacher |

Minna Thomas Antrim

Experience is a good teacher but she runs up big bills.

Experience | Good | Teacher |