Teaching Quotes

The reason I love teaching, it's like being a miner. I find all these undiscovered jewels and, with the right motivation, they're amazed at what they can do. I have to show them their capability.

If God treats you well by teaching you a disastrous lesson, you never forget it.

Cleanliness is very important. If you let kids make a total mess in the kitchen and then leave, you're not really teaching them anything.

Learning to read is probably the most difficult and revolutionary thing that happens to the human brain and if you don't believe that, watch an illiterate adult try to do it.

My words itch at your ears till you understand them

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

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

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

Reading, writing, teaching, learning, are all activities aimed at introducing civilizations to each other.

The art of good teaching begins when we can answer the questions our students are really trying to ask us, if only they knew how to do so.

Philosophy is the history of philosophy.

A teacher enlarges people in all sorts of ways besides just his subject matter.

A teacher's failure to create an intellectually reflective, engagement for learning is not simply malpractice but it is immoral particularly for students who cannot withdraw.

The world needs demonstration more than it needs teaching.

Your education tends to develop the brain while it neglects the heart, so you have a longing for teachings that develop and strengthen the good heart.

While I was serving, I worked as an adventure training officer, teaching soldiers how to ski, canoe and climb.

The trouble is that thinking looks like loafing. Who wants to pay people for daydreaming?

Teaching is mostly listening, and learning is mostly telling.

The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.

Great spiritual teachings do not change, but we do. As we grow older and wiser, we can receive the teachings at deeper levels.

Whether you like it or not the millions are here, and here they will remain. If you do not lift them up, they will pull you down... Education must not simply teach work - it must teach life.

The Church is a system, - but whether it is as much founded on the teaching of our Lord, who was divine, as on the teaching of St. Paul, who was not divine, is a question to me of much perplexity.

Bad teaching wastes a great deal of effort, and spoils many lives which might have been full of energy and happiness.

The only teaching that a professor can give, in my opinion, is that of thinking in front of his students.

I have discovered the value of psychology and psychiatry, that their teachings can undo knots in us and permit life to flow again and aid us in becoming more truly human.

Humans more easily remember or learn items when they are studied a few times over a long period of time (spaced presentation), rather than studied repeatedly in a short period of time.

If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.

It is not so much the content of what one says as the way in which one says it. However important the thing you say, what's the good of it if not heard or, being heard, not felt?

The bad teacher imposes his ideas and his methods on his pupils, and such originality as they may have is lost in the second-rate art of imitation.

If someone is unpleasant to you, draw a halo around his or her head in your mind. He/she is an angel who came to teach you something.

The two basic processes of education are knowing and valuing.

Education should be a lifelong process, the formal period serving as a foundation on which life's structure may rest and rise.

Man ultimately decides for himself! And in the end, education must be education towards the ability to decide

If a soul is not clothed with the teachings of the Church he cannot merit to have Jesus seated in him.

Do you think nobody would willingly entrust his children to you or pay you for teaching them? Why do you have to extort your fees and collect your pupils by compulsion?

At it's highest level, the purpose of teaching is not to teach—it is to inspire the desire for learning. Once a student's mind is set on fire, it will find a way to provide its own fuel.

I hate thinking about it, teaching about it, and writing about it. But the plain truth is that hell is real and real people go there for eternity.

School is an institution built on the axiom that learning is the result of teaching. And institutional wisdom continues to accept this axiom, despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary.

People whose talents are not exploited become disenchanted and disruptive.

INSTRUCTORS CAN impart a fraction of the teaching. It is through your own devoted practice that the mysteries of the Art of Peace are brought to life.

I believe babies are born as innovative personalities... But our social processes work to stamp out exploration and questioning.

It is really an alienation to believe that learning is the result of teaching.

God is teaching you a Lesson of Victory.

We had two grand antique professors who had been teaching at Lombard since before I was born.

I admire the fact that the central core of Buddhist teaching involves mindfulness and loving kindness and compassion.

True religion comes not front the teaching of men or the reading of books; it is the awakening of the spirit within us, consequent upon pure and heroic action.

I think you're not really teaching anyone unless you're learning yourself.

My time in prison only deepened my resolve against apartheid. Even while I was in prison, I fought against it, teaching my cellmates about white supremacy and how to fight against it.

The principal agent is the object itself and not the instruction given by the teacher. It is the child who uses the objects; it is the child who is active, and not the teacher.

I find it difficult [to believe] that... Christians accuse [Black Muslims] of teaching racial supremacy or... hatred, because their own history and... teachings are filled with it.