Teaching Quotes

Teaching Quote of the day

Sometimes you win, sometimes you learn.

What a child can do today with assistance, she will be able to do by herself tomorrow.

By giving our students practice in talking with others, we give them frames for thinking on their own.

The teacher must adopt the role of facilitator not content provider.

If I remained silent and you remained silent, then who will teach the ignorant?

A week of camp life is worth six months of theoretical teaching in the meeting room.

We have nothing to fear for the future, except as we shall forget the way the Lord has led us, and His teaching in our past history.

The greatest medicine of all is teaching people how not to need it

When someone offends me, I think it’s a gift from Allah (god). He (Allah) is teaching me humility.

Children have real understanding only of that which they invent themselves, and each time that we try to teach them too quickly, we keep them from reinventing it themselves.

There are no incurable diseases — only the lack of will. There are no worthless herbs — only the lack of knowledge.

If you don’t find a way to love a flawed person, secretly you’re teaching yourself that you are not lovable because of your flaws.

Teaching means creating situations where structures can be discovered.

Most people search high and wide for the key to success. If they only knew, the key to their dreams lies within.

Give the pupils something to do, not something to learn; and the doing is of such a nature as to demand thinking; learning naturally results.

Anything that is worth teaching can be presented in many different ways. These multiple ways can make use of our multiple intelligences.

Let us, therefore, foresake the vanity of the crowd and their false teachings, and turn back to the word delivered to us from the beginning.

I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.

People are always teaching us democracy but the people who teach us democracy don't want to learn it themselves.

The first step in the acquisition of wisdom is silence, the second listening, the third memory, the fourth practice, the fifth teaching others.

From a clear knowledge of the Bhagavad-gita all the goals of human existence become fulfilled. Bhagavad-gita is the manifest quintessence of all the teachings of the Vedic scriptures.

Of all the teachings we receive, this one is most important: Nothing belongs to you of what there is, of what you take, you must share.

My people are going to learn the principles of democracy, the dictates of truth and the teachings of science. Superstition must go.

Once children learn how to learn, nothing is going to narrow their mind. The essence of teaching is to make learning contagious, to have one idea spark another.

That's all teaching is; arranging contingencies which bring changes in behavior.

You learn at your best when you have something you care about and can get pleasure in being engaged in.

If we teach today’s students as we taught yesterday’s, we rob them of tomorrow.

When someone is taught the joy of learning, it becomes a life-long process that never stops, a process that creates a logical individual. That is the challenge and joy of teaching.

The secret of good teaching is to regard the child's intelligence as a fertile field in which seeds may be sown, to grow under the heat of flaming imagination.

The scandal of education is that every time you teach something, you deprive a [student] of the pleasure and benefit of discovery.

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

The mere imparting of information is not education. Above all things, the effort must result in making a man think and do for himself.

The first principle of true teaching is that nothing can be taught.

Let the main object... to seek and to find a method of instruction, by which teachers may teach less, but learners learn more.

Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality.

Let it be understood that those who are not found living as He taught are not Christian- even though they profess with the lips the teaching of Christ.

Don't try to fix the students, fix ourselves first. The good teacher makes the poor student good and the good student superior. When our students fail, we, as teachers, too, have failed.

Teach by teaching, not by correcting

The goal is to teach in such a way as to produce the most learning from the least teaching.

You teach me, I forget. You show me, I remember. You involve me, I understand.

I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question stars and books; I have begun to listen to the teaching my blood whispers to me.

Part of teaching is helping people create themselves.

Teachers are expected to reach unattainable goals with inadequate tools. The miracle is that at times they accomplish this impossible task.

What all good teachers have in common, however, is that they set high standards for their students and do not settle for anything less.

Teaching that impacts is not head to head, but heart to heart.

Success often comes to those who dare to act. It seldom goes to the timid who are ever afraid of the consequences.

Teaching children about the natural world should be seen as one of the most important events in their lives.

Many things can wait. Children cannot. Today their bones are being formed, their blood is being made, their senses are being developed. To them we cannot say "tomorrow." Their name is today.

There is a brilliant child locked inside every student.