Teaching Quotes
Our attitude towards ourselves should be to be insatiable in learning and towards others to be tirel...
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their powerlessness, innocence, and imagination fused to enable them to turn time inside out, travel...
Show MoreI am afraid that the schools will prove the very gates of hell, unless they diligently labor in expl...
Show MoreFor rigorous teachers seized my youth,And purged its faith, and trimmed its fire,Showed me the high,...
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Teach what you know, regardless of when you have learned it -- teach what you learned yesterday sage...
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I will simply express my strong belief, that that point of self-education which consists in teaching...
Show MoreI don't teach lies, but I do not teach all I know is true.

The word "education" comes from the root e from ex, out, and duco, I lead. It means a leading out. T...
Show MoreWe must become what we wish to teach.

There is no way to help a learner to be disciplined, active, and thoroughly engaged unless he percei...
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Life is a learned skill, but instead of teaching it, our culture force-fills developing minds with l...
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I would teach how science works as much as I would teach what science knows. I would assert (given t...
Show MorePeople cited violation of the First Amendment when a New Jersey schoolteacher asserted that evolutio...
Show MoreWithout language, one cannot talk to people and understand them; one cannot share their hopes and as...
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Before I started (college), that's the advice my dad gave me. He said to pick classes based on the t...
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[About describing atomic models in the language of classical physics:]We must be clear that when it ...
Show MoreTrue teachers are those who use themselves as bridges over which they invite their students to cross...
Show MoreTime teaches all things to him who lives forever but I have not the luxury of eternity.

I taught you everything you know. But I didn't teach you everything I know.

For the first time in his life, a teacher was pointing out things that Ender had not already seen fo...
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...you seemed to be listening to me, not to find out useful information, but to try to catch me in a...
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Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.
Teaching is only demonstrating that it is possible. Learning is making it possible for yourself.

Whoever teaches learns in the act of teaching, and whoever learns teaches in the act of learning.

The teacher is of course an artist, but being an artist does not mean that he or she can make the pr...
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The teacher is of course an artist, but being an artist does not mean that he or she can make the pr...
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Teach me your way of looking at people:as you glanced at Peter after his denial,as you penetrated th...
Show MoreIn learning you will teach, and in teaching you will learn.
It is better to enlighten men’s minds than to teach them to be obstinate in their prejudices.

Education isn't what some people declare it to be, namely, putting knowledge into souls that lack it...
Show MoreBodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under co...
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That's what education should be," I said, "the art of orientation. Educators should devise the simpl...
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Those who don't know must learn from those who do.

The years teach us much, which the days never knew.
That which we are, we shall teach, not voluntarily, but involuntarily. Thoughts come into our minds ...
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There's a lot of talk these days about giving children self-esteem. It's not something you can give;...
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Learning is finding out what you already know. Doing is demonstrating that you know it. Teaching is ...
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Real mystery - the very reason to read (and certainly write) any book - was to them a thing to disma...
Show MoreSince her retirement from teaching Miss Beryl's health had in many respects greatly improved, despit...
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You mean you live down here?' Matilda asked.'I do', Miss Honey replied, but she said no more.Matilda...
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His older self had taught his younger self a language which the older self knew because the younger ...
Show MoreI had never been much interested in Pluto, too many facts and too much isolation.

Grades really cover up failure to teach. A bad instructor can go through an entire quarter leaving a...
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The fact that they were there as students presumed they did not know what was good or bad. That was ...
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When spontaneity and individuality and really good original stuff occurred in a classroom it was in ...
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grades really cover up failure to teach.

He singled out aspects of Quality such as unity, vividness, authority, economy, sensitivity, clarity...
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Schoolmastering kept me busy by day and part of each night. I was an assistant housemaster, with a f...
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To instruct calls for energy, and to remain almost silent, but watchful and helpful, while students ...
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If a man is to shed the light of the sun upon other men, he must first of all have it within himself...
Show MoreAdjunct teachers are the professorial equivalent of the migrant Mexican farm laborers hired during h...
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If our ideas and beliefs are held with an awareness of abstracting, they can be changed if found to ...
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If you could arrange to avoid that routine job-world, you were an intellectual or an artist. Too res...
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Education -- whether its object be children or adults, individuals or an entire people, or even ones...
Show MoreThe biggest challenge facing the great teachers and communicators of history is not to teach history...
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Teaching school is like having jumper cables hooked to your brain, draining all the juice out of you...
Show MoreWe never know which lives we influence, or when, or why.

To do otherwise with a 'prentice was to ask for a second, less playful bite. And who would be to bla...
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If thou wouldst seek justice, thyself must be just.
You want to know how I think art should be taught to children? Take them to a museum and say, 'This ...
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...teaching is, after all, a form of show business.

At it's highest level, the purpose of teaching is not to teach—it is to inspire the desire for learn...
Show MoreMuch as a teacher may wince at the thought, he is also an entertainer—for unless he can hold his aud...
Show MoreNow, it is of course well known that Christ continually uses the expression 'imitators.' He never sa...
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The best thing for being sad," replied Merlin, beginning to puff and blow, "is to learn something. T...
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New learning never hurt anybody.

The kind of teacher who never learned anything herself. Or taught anything, except sarcasm or fear.

It would seem that you have no useful skill or talent whatsoever," he said. "Have you thought of goi...
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While he was conscious of improving at every stroke, he did not feel that the other was asserting an...
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If you want to use television to teach somebody, you must first teachthem how to use television.
But the purpose of a story is to teach and to please at once, and what it teaches is how to recogniz...
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If nobody teaches us the words, the thoughts, we stay ignorant. If nobody shows a little child, two,...
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The first duty of a lecturer- to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap u...
Show MoreOnce she knows how to read there's only one thing you can teach her to believe in and that is hersel...
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This irritated or puzzled such students of literature and their professors as were accustomed to ‘se...
Show MoreAnd speaking of this wonderful machine:[840] I’m puzzled by the difference b

And speaking of this wonderful machine:[840] I’m puzzled by the difference between, the kind Which g...
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My words itch at your ears till you understand them

History is an excellent teacher with few pupils.
We find that in the absence of demonstrable truth, the best we can do is to exercise the greatest di...
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When you study great teachers... you will learn much more from their caring and hard work than from ...
Show MoreProbably every subject is interesting if an avenue into it can be found that has humanity and that a...
Show MoreWriting can be taught or learned in the vacuum. We must say to students in every area of knowledge: ...
Show MoreOne of underestimated tasks in nonfiction writing is to impose narrative shape on an unwieldy mass o...
Show MoreAmong the many things that made the Professor an excellent teacher was the fact that he wasn't afrai...
Show MoreThe little child learns to speak, though it has no learned teachers - because it lives with those wh...
Show MoreRewards and punishment is the lowest form of education.
Knowledge (curriculum) and behavior (pedagogy) are embedded in everyone’s core beliefs about the nat...
Show MoreOne of the hardest things for boys to learn is that a teacher is human. One of the hardest things fo...
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Pass the parcel. That's sometimes all you can do. Take it, feel it, and pass it on. Not for me, not ...
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I never teach my pupils, I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.
Experience teaches only the teachable.
And if you do see any pirates, I don't want you to pick up any rough manners from them. Do you under...
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I want to make it clear before we begin that I think your purpose is to learn and mine is to help yo...
Show MoreFormal education teaches how to stand, but to see the rainbow you must come out and walk many steps ...
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Teaching yoga itself is great karma yoga, because it reconnects people to the source.

The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence.
If our children were to grow up truthful they much be taught by those who had a regard for truth; an...
Show MoreThe whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of the mind for the pur...
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