Teaching Quotes

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...

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...