“Remember, young man, experience is not the best teacher. Other people's experience is the best teacher. By reading about the lives of great people, you can unlock the secrets to what made them great.”
Source: The Noticer: Sometimes, All a Person Needs Is a Little Perspective
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“The best teachers of humanity are the lives of great men.”
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 217.
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“The best teacher is experience and not through someone's distorted point of view.”
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Source: Often attributed to Kerouac's On the Road, the quote cannot be found in that book, nor in any of Kerouac's other published works.
As quoted in The Quotable Teacher (2006) by Randy Howe, p. 67
“Children learn best when they like their teacher and they think their teacher likes them.”
Source: Hold On to Your Kids: Why Parents Need to Matter More Than Peers
“To live a godly life is the best way to light up a lesson that the teacher can possibly employ.”
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 572.