A Quote by John Updike

Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner.

John Updike

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John Updike
American - Novelist
March 18, 1932 - January 27, 2009

I am for poetry that is admired by peasant and aristocrat alike.

F. Sionil Jose

[The Barefoot College is] the only college where the teacher is the learner and the learner is the teacher.

Bunker Roy

To be a teacher in the right sense is to be a learner. I am not a teacher, only a fellow student.

Soren Kierkegaard

The teacher is the one who gets the most out of the lessons, and the true teacher is the learner.

Elbert Hubbard

The teacher is the one who gets the most out of the lessons, and that the true teacher is a learner.

Elbert Hubbard

The close observer soon discovers that the teacher's task is not to implant facts but to place the subject to be learned in front of the learner and, through sympathy, emotion, imagination, and patience, to awaken in the learner the restless drive for answers and insights which enlarge the personal life and give it meaning.

Nathan M. Pusey

Every peasant has a lawyer inside of him, just as every lawyer, no matter how urbane he may be, carries a peasant within himself.

Miguel de Unamuno

Who keeps the tavern and serves up the drinks? The peasant. Who squanders and drinks up money belonging to the peasant commune, the school, the church? The peasant. Who would steal from his neighbor, commit arson, and falsely denounce another for a bottle of vodka? The peasant.

Anton Chekhov

All learning is in the learner, not the teacher.

Plato

Whoever wrote Shakespeare is a working class hero be he an aristocrat or a peasant. Shakespeare is a great leveler. We're presented with kings, queens, emperors and giants who feel the same things as everyone else: jealousy, love, anger, bitterness, grief, loss.

Rhys Ifans

He is not likely to learn who is not willing to be taught; for the learner has something to do, as well as the teacher.

Benjamin Whichcote

Educators remind us that what counts in a classroom is not what the teacher teaches; it’s what the learner learns.

Alfie Kohn

I am still a learner, not a teacher, feeding somewhat omnivorously, browsing both stalk & leaves

Henry David Thoreau

Learning of all kinds goes on best, lasts best, and tends to lead itself on more when it grows out of a real focus of interest in the learner.

Carl Rogers

Instruction begins when you, the teacher, learn from the learner; put yourself in his place so that you may understand . . . what he learns and the way he understands it.

Soren Kierkegaard

Marriage now tends to be viewed as a form of mere emotional satisfaction that can be constructed in any way or modified at will. But the indispensible contribution of marriage to society transcends the feelings and momentary needs of the couple.

Pope Francis

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