Teaching Quotes

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...

Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under co...

That's what education should be," I said, "the art of orientation. Educators should devise the simpl...

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 ...

There's a lot of talk these days about giving children self-esteem. It's not something you can give;...

Learning is finding out what you already know. Doing is demonstrating that you know it. Teaching is ...

Real mystery - the very reason to read (and certainly write) any book - was to them a thing to disma...

Since her retirement from teaching Miss Beryl's health had in many respects greatly improved, despit...

You mean you live down here?' Matilda asked.'I do', Miss Honey replied, but she said no more.Matilda...

His older self had taught his younger self a language which the older self knew because the younger ...

I 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...

The fact that they were there as students presumed they did not know what was good or bad. That was ...

When spontaneity and individuality and really good original stuff occurred in a classroom it was in ...

grades really cover up failure to teach.

He singled out aspects of Quality such as unity, vividness, authority, economy, sensitivity, clarity...

Schoolmastering kept me busy by day and part of each night. I was an assistant housemaster, with a f...

To instruct calls for energy, and to remain almost silent, but watchful and helpful, while students ...

If a man is to shed the light of the sun upon other men, he must first of all have it within himself...

Adjunct teachers are the professorial equivalent of the migrant Mexican farm laborers hired during h...

If our ideas and beliefs are held with an awareness of abstracting, they can be changed if found to ...

If you could arrange to avoid that routine job-world, you were an intellectual or an artist. Too res...

Education -- whether its object be children or adults, individuals or an entire people, or even ones...

The biggest challenge facing the great teachers and communicators of history is not to teach history...

Teaching school is like having jumper cables hooked to your brain, draining all the juice out of you...

We 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...

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 ...

...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...

Much as a teacher may wince at the thought, he is also an entertainer—for unless he can hold his aud...

Now, it is of course well known that Christ continually uses the expression 'imitators.' He never sa...

The best thing for being sad," replied Merlin, beginning to puff and blow, "is to learn something. T...

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...

While he was conscious of improving at every stroke, he did not feel that the other was asserting an...

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...

If nobody teaches us the words, the thoughts, we stay ignorant. If nobody shows a little child, two,...

The first duty of a lecturer- to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap u...

Once she knows how to read there's only one thing you can teach her to believe in and that is hersel...

This irritated or puzzled such students of literature and their professors as were accustomed to ‘se...

And 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...

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...

When you study great teachers... you will learn much more from their caring and hard work than from ...

Probably every subject is interesting if an avenue into it can be found that has humanity and that a...

Writing can be taught or learned in the vacuum. We must say to students in every area of knowledge: ...

One of underestimated tasks in nonfiction writing is to impose narrative shape on an unwieldy mass o...

Among the many things that made the Professor an excellent teacher was the fact that he wasn't afrai...

The little child learns to speak, though it has no learned teachers - because it lives with those wh...

Rewards and punishment is the lowest form of education.

Knowledge (curriculum) and behavior (pedagogy) are embedded in everyone’s core beliefs about the nat...

One of the hardest things for boys to learn is that a teacher is human. One of the hardest things fo...

Pass the parcel. That's sometimes all you can do. Take it, feel it, and pass it on. Not for me, not ...

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...

I want to make it clear before we begin that I think your purpose is to learn and mine is to help yo...

Formal education teaches how to stand, but to see the rainbow you must come out and walk many steps ...

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...

The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of the mind for the pur...

It is so delightful to teach those one loves!

London has the trick of making its past, its long indelible past, always a part of its present. And ...

I returned, however, with unabated vigour to my work—a more arduous task than anyone can imagine, wh...

When we did art with the kids, the demons would lie down.

Shabelsky: O mind of genius, you think up things for everyone and teach everyone, but why not for on...

Those who know, do. Those that understand, teach.

The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot.

I explained that most great works of the imagination were meant to make you feel like a stranger in ...

It was one of the only times in my teaching career that I got angry and showed it in class. I was yo...

For the advice in a joke is sometimes more useful than the most serious teaching.

There are many teachers who could ruin you. Before you know it you could be a pale copy of this teac...

When you want to teach children to think, you begin by treating them seriously when they are little,...

Public misbehavior by the famous is a powerful teaching tool.

Positive expectations are the mark of the superior personality.

I am not sure that the best way to make a boy love the English poets might not be forbid him to read...

Was I gleeful, settled, content, during the hours I passed in yonder bare, humble schoolroom this mo...

When mother-cow is chewing grass its young ones watch its mouth

For Socrates, all virtues were forms of knowledge. To train someone to manage an account for Goldman...

A person must earn enlightenment, Eragon. It is not handed down to you by others, regardless of how ...

I won’t tell you what to believe, Eragon. It is far better to be taught to think critically and then...

This teaching job did not pay a lot of money, because, let's face it, nobody gives a flying fuck abo...

To make someone an icon is to make him an abstraction, and abstractions are incapable of vital commu...

The way I saw it, if my students were willing to pretend I was a teacher, the least I could do was r...

My first semester I had only nine students. Hoping they might view me as professional and well prepa...

Adrienne started teaching a few months ago in Denver and wrote that it leaves you with a constant fe...

I realized I was a teacher when I felt warm during class and got up to open the door. Later on there...

This question of grades being coercive, and of politics being inherent in teaching, applies not only...

you cannot be friends either with boy or man unless you give yourself away in the process, and Mr. P...

The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without a teacher.