The primary task of a useful teacher is to teach his students to recognize 'inconvenient' facts - I mean facts that are inconvenient for their party opinions.
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In politics, readily dismissing inconvenient people can easily extend to dismissing inconvenient truths about them.
Our best teachers do more than impart facts and figures - they inspire and encourage students and instill a true desire to learn. That's a fine art in itself.
Facts, according to my ideas, are merely the elements of truths, and not the truths themselves; of all matters there are none so utterly useless by themselves as your mere matters of fact.
I don't think most teachers realize how much impact they have.
I tell my students, even if you are an opinion journalist, your opinion should be based on facts.
Attitudes are more important than facts.
It is worth while too to warn the teacher that undue severity in correcting faults is liable at times to discourage a boy's mind from effort.
Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.
Teachers have told us across the country that what's severely outdated is the teacher at the front of the classroom as the font of knowledge, because as we know, access to knowledge and information is now ubiquitous. So instead, teachers want to help students learn how to think so that they can be lifelong learners.
Useless knowledge can be made directly contributory to a force of sound and disinterested public opinion.