Teaching Quotes

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.

By degrees they spoke of education , and the book-learning that forms one part of it; and the result...

... "The world is afflicted with death and decay, therefore the wise do not grieve, knowing the term...

To sneer at his imperfect attempt was very bad breeding.

The Truth must dazzle graduallyOr every man be blind - Emily Dickinson

...readers who think I have answers when all I have are a few pointed questions...

She (my mother) could still recite them (the poems) in full when she was lying helpless and nearly b...

Proper teaching is recognized with ease. You can know it without fail because it awakens within you ...

There's something hostile about the way they enter and leave the room that tells you what they think...

Everything in my head was secondhand, too: Catholicism; Ireland's sad history, a litany of suffering...

Teaching is bringing the news.

You can't teach in a vacuum. A good teacher relates the material to real life. You understand that, ...

I am teaching. Storytelling is teaching.

To enter a room is to move from one environment to another and that, for the teenager, can be trauma...

Nobody ever told them they had a right to an opinion.

First day of your teaching you are to stand at your classroom door and let your students know how ha...

When I act tough they listen politely till the spasm passes. They know.

There's nothing sillier in the world than a teacher telling you don't do it after you already did it...

A teacher who cannot explain any abstract subject to a child does not himself thoroughly understand ...

It is easier to write a book with footnotes than the same book written so that children can understa...

You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.

I'm not a teacher: only a fellow traveler of whom you asked the way. I pointed ahead - ahead of myse...

He who can does. He who can't teaches.

Tom had never found any difficulty in discerning a pointer from a setter, when once he had been told...

There was a seminar for advanced students in Zürich that I was teaching and von Neumann was in the c...

I started studying law, but this I could stand just for one semester. I couldn't stand more. Then I ...

the calling of the teacher. There is no craft more privileged. To awaken in another human being powe...

Theodore had an apparently inexhaustible fund of knowledge about everything, but he imparted this kn...

We teach what we need to learn and write what we need to know.

In brief, the teaching process, as commonly observed, has nothing to do with the investigation and e...

Adults constantly raise the bar on smart children, precisely because they're able to handle it. The ...

I'm the scratchy stuff on the side of the matchbox. But that's fine with me. I don't mind at all. Be...

A teacher affects eternity he can never tell where his influence stops.

How deaf and stupid I have been, he thought, walking on quickly. When anyone reads anything which he...

Wisdom cannot be imparted. Wisdom that a wise man attempts to impart always sounds like foolishness ...

One can pass on knowledge but not wisdom. One can find wisdom, one can live it, one can be supported...

A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering...

Genius is the ability to independently arrive at and understand concepts that would normally have to...

...[M]oral instruction, although containing much that is convincing for the reason, ...accomplishes....

Since in early youth it cannot be known what ends are likely to occur to us in the course of life, p...

Would it not therefore be wiser in moral concerns to acquiesce in the judgement of common reason, or...

You will search the world over and not find a nonsuperstitious community. As long as there is ignora...

Most learning is not the result of instruction. It is rather the result of unhampered participation ...

He is not, he hopes, a sentimentalist. He tries not to sentimentalize the animals he kills, or to se...

You shouldn't call then anything. They're poor unfortunate people who cannot help the way they look,

Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.

Teaching is not a lost art but the regard for it is a lost tradition.

I've managed to bring the backlog down to a mere sixty-eight years," she announced with some small s...

One thing I more and this is all I have to say...High School is not a separate unit from you. We are...

Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased.

[Kids] don't remember what you try to teach them. They remember what you are.

Give the pupils something to do, not something to learn; and the doing is of such a nature as to dem...

The most important attitude that can be formed is that of desire to go on learning.

People who teach you cram old ideas, old views, old ways, into you. Like covering plants with layer ...

... because Mr. Applebaum, who is ostensibly teaching us precalculus but is mostly teaching me that ...

If you are lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it.

The school teacher is certainly underpaid as a child minder but ludicrously overpaid as an educator...

Learning to read is probably the most difficult and revolutionary thing that happens to the human br...

A writer out of loneliness is trying to communicate like a distant star sending signals. He isn't te...

Seek opportunities to show you care. The smallest gestures often make the biggest difference.

I think the teaching profession contributes more to the future of our society than any other single ...

The job of an educator is to teach students to see vitality in themselves

To a teacher of languages there comes a time when the world is but a place of many words and man app...

To teach is to learn twice.

Farmers base their livelihoods on raising crops. But farmers do not make plants grow. They don't att...