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· Friedrich Nietzsche
You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil.
· Ignacio Estrada
If a child can't learn the way we teach, maybe we should teach the way they learn.
· Colleen Wilcox
Teaching is the greatest act of optimism.
· Alice Wellington Rollins
The test of a good teacher is not how many questions he can ask his pupils that they will answer readily, but how many questions he inspires them to ask him which he finds it hard to answer.
· Bertrand Russell
No man can be a good teacher unless he has feelings of warm affection toward his pupils and a genuine desire to impart to them what he believes to be of value.
· Confucius
It is not possible for one to teach others who cannot teach his own family.
· Dr. Haim Ginott
Teachers are expected to reach unattainable goals with inadequate tools. The miracle is that at times they accomplish this impossible task.
· Samuel Johnson
Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
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Carl Rogers
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Sunday, May 25, 2014
Quotes on Teacher's Day
Some Good News For All Men !
email from "J. K. S. Weerasekera"
A man and his wife were getting a divorce at a local court, but the custody
of their children posed a problem.
The mother jumped to her feet and protested to the judge that since she had brought the children into this world, she should retain custody of them.
The man also wanted custody of his children, so the judge asked for his side
of the story.
After a long moment of silence, the man rose from his chair and
replied:
Your Honour, when I put a dollar into a vending machine, and a Coke comes out, does the Coke belong to me or to the machine?
Don't laugh --- he won !
of their children posed a problem.
The mother jumped to her feet and protested to the judge that since she had brought the children into this world, she should retain custody of them.
The man also wanted custody of his children, so the judge asked for his side
of the story.
After a long moment of silence, the man rose from his chair and
replied:
Your Honour, when I put a dollar into a vending machine, and a Coke comes out, does the Coke belong to me or to the machine?
Don't laugh --- he won !
. Quotes Of The Day ...
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Why
did God make man before he made woman? Because he didn't want any advice on
how to do it. - Anonymous
I
lived in Miami for a while, in a section with a lot of really old people. The
average age in my apartment house was dead. - Gabe Kaplan
Everybody
should believe in something;
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Wandurata Giya Kala - A happy monkey.
: email from "J. K. S. Weerasekera"
KEEP LAUGHING LIFE IS TOO SHORT TO WONDER ABOUT THE WORLD AND THE THINGS THAT IS HAPPENING AROUND US
Saturday, May 24, 2014
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'If
you ask me to point out the most important message that I can derive from
Buddhism for reconciliation in our society, I would like to remind you of this
verse in the Dhammapada.
Jayam
veram pasavati – Dukkham seti parajito
Upasanto sukham seti – Hitva jaya parajam
Upasanto sukham seti – Hitva jaya parajam
(Dhammapada,
Sukha vagga verse 5)
This means, "Victory breeds hatred; the defeated sleeps in sorrow; the peaceful sleeps happily, abandoning victory and defeat." Accordingly, I can say any sort of victory celebrations certainly negatively affect the idea of reconciliation. As long as we keep 'the victorious and the defeated' dichotomy in society, we are keeping alive the "hatred and the anger". If we want to have reconciliation and a peaceful country, we need to get our people away from the "victory and defeat" mentality. It is not my word. It is the word of the Buddha.'
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Ven. Galkande Dhammananda Thera, Lecturer, Department of History, University of
Kelaniya.
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All
over the world, teachers say to each other "I didn't really
understand this until I had to teach it". Or as researcher and
inventor Mark Changizi quipped: "I find that no matter how badly I
teach I still learn something".
PS by Philip GV
' It is a very ancient saying,
That
'When you are a teacher,
By your pupils you are taught'
From the Musical 'The King and I'.
understand this until I had to teach it". Or as researcher and
inventor Mark Changizi quipped: "I find that no matter how badly I
teach I still learn something".
PS by Philip GV
' It is a very ancient saying,
That
'When you are a teacher,
By your pupils you are taught'
From the Musical 'The King and I'.
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