“To be a teacher does not mean simply to affirm that such a thing is so, or to deliver a lecture, etc.”

—  Sören Kierkegaard

1840s, The Point of View for My Work as an Author (1848)
Context: To be a teacher does not mean simply to affirm that such a thing is so, or to deliver a lecture, etc. No, to be a teacher in the right sense is to be a learner. Instruction begins when you, the teacher, learn from the learner, put yourself in his place so that you may understand what he understands and the way he understands it.

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Danish philosopher and theologian, founder of Existentialism 1813–1855

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