Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes About Teaching
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Go to the place where the thing you wish to know is native; your best teacher is there. Where the thing you wish to know is so dominant that you must breathe its very atmosphere, there teaching is moat thorough, and learning is most easy. You acquire a language most readily in the country where it is spoken; you study mineralogy boat among miners; and so with everything else.
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The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.
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First let a man teach himself, and then he will be taught by others.
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They teach in academies far too many things, and far too much that is useless.
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A teacher who can arouse a feeling for one single good action, for one single good poem, accomplishes more than he who fills our memory with rows and rows of natural objects, classified with name and form.
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We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.
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Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.
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There is nothing more frightful than for a teacher to know only what his scholars are intended to know.
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Born: August 28, 1749
- Died: March 22, 1832
- Occupation: Writer
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