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Single Idea 2842
[filed under theme 25. Social Practice / E. Policies / 5. Education / c. Teaching
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Full Idea
Men learn partly by habituation and partly by listening.
Gist of Idea
Men learn partly by habit, and partly by listening
Source
Aristotle (Politics [c.332 BCE], 1332b10)
Book Ref
Aristotle: 'Politics', ed/tr. Sinclair,T.A. /Saunders,T. [Penguin 1992], p.430
A Reaction
Habit is almost an education of the body rather than of the mind, like a pianist making their fingers learn to play a piece.
The
19 ideas
with the same theme
[virtues and principles of good teaching]:
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]
|
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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