Nikolay Konstantinov quotes
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The greatest reward for a student is not a good grade. It is the willingness of his teacher to listen to him.
-- Nikolay Konstantinov
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If the person you are talking to doesn't appear to be listening, be patient. It may simply be that he has a small piece of fluff in his ear.
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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.
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My dad is a chemical engineer, and my mom was a teacher. They were pretty serious about education, but I always thought about things a little bit differently.
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The teacher that I was for decades, and that I still am in a certain way, wondered what was meant by the word education. I was truly dumbfounded at the very thought of dealing with such an essential and extensive subject.
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Without hope of reward Provide help to others. Bear suffering alone, And share your pleasures with beggars.
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Do rewards motivate people? Absolutely. They motivate people to get rewards.
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In [writing] fiction, every sentence is its own reward.
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His students were hardly in a position to tell him when he was getting windy, and he had recently noticed, as most professors did after a while, that his lectures mysteriously seemed to be getting longer with time.
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As I often tell my students, the person you’ll have the hardest time opening to and truly loving without reserve is yourself. Once you can do that, you can love the whole universe unconditionally.
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Mr. McVicker instilled self-respect in those of us who were his students, because he respected us regardless of our background,
