Teaching Quotes

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...

The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days.

More often than you might think, teaching science is inseparable from teaching doubt.

In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to ...

Without books we should very likely be a still-primitive people living in the shadow of traditions t...

The creative impulse can be killed, but it cannot be taught...What a teacher can do...in working wit...

Nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

I have always felt that the true text-book for the pupil is his teacher

One child, one teacher, one book, one pen can change the world.

We have become obsessed with what is good about small classrooms and oblivious about what also can b...

Our attitude towards ourselves should be to be insatiable in learning and towards others to be tirel...

Being considerate of others will take your children further in life than any college degree.

their powerlessness, innocence, and imagination fused to enable them to turn time inside out, travel...

I am afraid that the schools will prove the very gates of hell, unless they diligently labor in expl...

For rigorous teachers seized my youth,And purged its faith, and trimmed its fire,Showed me the high,...

Teach what you know, regardless of when you have learned it -- teach what you learned yesterday sage...

I will simply express my strong belief, that that point of self-education which consists in teaching...

I 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...

We 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...

Life is a learned skill, but instead of teaching it, our culture force-fills developing minds with l...

I would teach how science works as much as I would teach what science knows. I would assert (given t...

People cited violation of the First Amendment when a New Jersey schoolteacher asserted that evolutio...

Without language, one cannot talk to people and understand them; one cannot share their hopes and as...

Before I started (college), that's the advice my dad gave me. He said to pick classes based on the t...

[About describing atomic models in the language of classical physics:]We must be clear that when it ...

True teachers are those who use themselves as bridges over which they invite their students to cross...

Time 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...

...you seemed to be listening to me, not to find out useful information, but to try to catch me in a...

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...

The teacher is of course an artist, but being an artist does not mean that he or she can make the pr...

Teach me your way of looking at people:as you glanced at Peter after his denial,as you penetrated th...

In 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...

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,...