Stephen Neal quotes

The good teacher discovers the natural gifts of his pupils and liberates them.
-- Stephen Neal

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MY TOUGHEST MATCH; is not on the mat. It's at the dinner table and it's at fast food restaurants. It's hearing about the party I can Never go to. It's realizing being a Great Wrestler isn't a sport, It's a LIFE.
-- Stephen Neal

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Teachers believe they have a gift for giving; it drives them with the same irrepressible drive that drives others to create a work of art or a market or a building.

If nobody said anything unless he knew what he was talking about, a ghastly hush would descend upon the earth.

Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.

Everybody is now so busy teaching that nobody has any time to learn.

Learning (Shakespeare's plays) ...in school was a bit of a bore.

In considering any new subject, there is frequently a tendency, first, to overrate what we find to be already interesting or remarkable; and, secondly, by a sort of natural reaction, to undervalue the true state of the case, when we do discover that our notions have surpassed those that were really tenable

Natural science does not consist in ratifying what others have said, but in seeking the causes of phenomena.

It was a natural process, because when we go to the ring we are human beings, but once you feel the punches and the competition that's when the beast comes out and takes hold of us.

We always do what's natural, only sometimes we shouldn't do it.

Education is not sermonizing to children against their instincts and pleasures, but providing a natural continuity between what they feel and what they can and should be.