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Single Idea 17226
[filed under theme 25. Social Practice / E. Policies / 5. Education / c. Teaching
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Full Idea
There is nothing by which a person can better show how much skill and talent he possesses than by so educating men that at last they will live under the direct authority of reason.
Gist of Idea
The best use of talent is to teach other people to live rationally
Source
Baruch de Spinoza (The Ethics [1675], IVApp 09)
Book Ref
Spinoza,Benedict de: 'Ethics', ed/tr. White,WH/Stirling,AH [Wordsworth 2001], p.218
A Reaction
Speaking as a retired philosophy teacher, I think this is an excellent idea, but then I would, wouldn't I? What if you turn a nice warm-hearted friendly young person into a chillingly detached heartless reasoner?
The
19 ideas
with the same theme
[virtues and principles of good teaching]:
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8151
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Let your teacher be a god to you
[Anon (Upan)]
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1565
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We learn language, and we don't know who teaches us it
[Anon (Diss)]
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4331
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Education is channelling a child's feelings into the right course before it understands why
[Plato]
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250
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The best way to educate the young is not to rebuke them, but to set a good example
[Plato]
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222
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Only a great person can understand the essence of things, and an even greater person can teach it
[Plato]
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2153
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Compulsory intellectual work never remains in the mind
[Plato]
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1638
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Didactic education is hard work and achieves little
[Plato]
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5150
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Intellectual virtue arises from instruction (and takes time), whereas moral virtue result from habit
[Aristotle]
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11241
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Wise men aren't instructed; they instruct
[Aristotle]
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2842
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Men learn partly by habit, and partly by listening
[Aristotle]
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13290
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One joy of learning is making teaching possible
[Seneca]
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13322
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Both teachers and pupils should aim at one thing - the improvement of the pupil
[Seneca]
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17226
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The best use of talent is to teach other people to live rationally
[Spinoza]
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19957
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Teaching is the best practice of the general virtue that leads us to love everyone
[Montesquieu]
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19580
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If the pupil really yearns for the truth, they only need a hint
[Novalis]
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2889
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One repays a teacher badly if one remains only a pupil
[Nietzsche]
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14834
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Teachers only gather knowledge for their pupils, and can't be serious about themselves
[Nietzsche]
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2908
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There is a need for educators who are themselves educated
[Nietzsche]
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3973
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Without a teacher, the concept of 'getting things right or wrong' is meaningless
[Davidson]
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