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The successful teacher is no longer on a height, pumping knowledge at high pressure into passive receptacles.

The successful teacher is no longer on a height, pumping knowledge at high pressure into passive receptacles.

William Osler

Education, Teacher, Teaching

Sir William Osler, Mark E. Silverman, T. J. Murray, Charles S. Bryan, American College of Physicians--American Society of Internal Medicine (2003). “The Quotable Osler”, p.215, ACP Press

The higher the standard of education in a profession, the less marked will be the charlatanism.

William Osler

Teaching, Standards, Higher

Sir William Osler, Mark E. Silverman, T. J. Murray, Charles S. Bryan, American College of Physicians--American Society of Internal Medicine (2003). “The Quotable Osler”, p.195, ACP Press

To have a group of cloistered clinicians away completely from the broad current of professional life would be bad for teacher and worse for student. The primary work of a professor of medicine in a medical school is in the wards, teaching his pupils how to deal with patients and their diseases.

William Osler

Teacher, Teaching, School

Sir William Osler (1985). “The educational essays”

No bubble is so iridescent or floats longer than that blown by the successful teacher.

William Osler

Teacher, Teaching, Successful

Sir William Osler, Mark E. Silverman, T. J. Murray, Charles S. Bryan, American College of Physicians--American Society of Internal Medicine (2003). “The Quotable Osler”, p.215, ACP Press

The higher education so much needed today is not given in the school, is not to be bought in the market place, but it has to be wrought out in each one of us for himself; it is the silent influence of character on character.

William Osler

Teaching, School, Character

William Osler (1927). “Aequanimitas”, p.121, Ravenio Books

The great minds, the great works transcend all limitations of time, of language, and of race, and the scholar can never feel initiated into the company of the elect until he can approach all of life's problems from the cosmopolitan standpoint.

William Osler

Teaching, Race, Mind

Sir William Osler (2001). “Osler's "a Way of Life" and Other Addresses, with Commentary and Annotations”, p.340, Duke University Press