Teaching Quotes

Teaching is a good distraction, and I am in contact with young people, which is very gratifying.

It would be wonderful if people could grow together in groups, teaching and learning communities where they empower, evoke, explore the enormous capacities of the human condition.

Psychologically, the teaching of abstractions first is wrong. Indeed, a thorough understanding of the concrete must precede the abstract.

The charity that is a trifle to us can be precious to others.

Education has for its object the formation of character.

There is no teaching to compare with example.

No teaching could be more direct than just to sit down.

My joy in learning is partly that it enables me to teach.

Those periods of struggling to overcome challenges are what people find to be the most enjoyable times.

Children should be led into the right paths, not by severity, but by persuasion.

Teaching people to become like Jesus, outside of the power of Jesus, dishonors Jesus.

A great idea is usually original to more than one discoverer. Great ideas come when the world needs them. Great ideas surround the world's ignorance and press for admission.

Out of the questions of students come most of the creative ideas and discoveries.

Educarers demonstrate love by showing and teaching respect.

I decided I needed to give up something, so I gave up teaching.

I'm bilingual. I speak English and I speak educationese.

Good teachers cost a lot; but, poor teachers cost a lot more.

We have two strategies for coping; the way of avoidance or the way of attention.

Old teachers never die, they just grade away.

The teachers who get "burned out" are not the ones who are constantly learning, which can be exhilarating, but those who feel they must stay in control and ahead of the students at all times.

The mind does not take its complexion from the skin.

If you want to make a mark you have to take a risk.

Only dead mathematics can be taught where the attitude of competition prevails: living mathematics must always be a communal possession.

The energy available for each individual man is his income, and the philosophy which can teach him to be content with penury should be capable of teaching him also the uses of wealth.

His older self had taught his younger self a language which the older self knew because the younger self, after being taught, grew up to be the older self and was, therefore, capable of teaching.

A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher who is not teaching.

The greatest self is a peaceful smile, that always sees the world smiling back.

With too much pride a man cannot learn a thing. In and of itself, learning teaches you how foolish you are.

Many children struggle in schools... because the way they are being taught is incompatible with the way they learn.

Whoever does not accept my teaching may not be saved - for it is God's teaching and not mine.

The proper end of teaching is to lead our students toward autonomy.

Revitalizing General Motors is like teaching an elephant to tap dance. You find the sensitive spot and start poking.

Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.

Indeed, nowadays no electrical engineer could get along without complex numbers, and neither could anyone working in aerodynamics or fluid dynamics.

I was brought up in the Christian church and I studied in the teachings of Jesus. I believed in caring for others and trying to be kind. It's something I still have to work on every day.

Teaching, the most noble profession, should be rewarded based on merit alone, not seniority.

Learning is not a product of teaching . kids are born learning. They learn how to walk, how to talk. They're basically little scientists. If we don't stop that process, it will continue.

Underneath the visible problems with reading and writing lies the deeper problem of 'illearnacy': an acquired disabling of learning courage and learning initiative.

What office is there which involves more responsibility, which requires more qualifications, and which ought, therefore, to be more honorable, than that of teaching?

I am overwhelmed by an irresistible temptation to do my climb by moonlight and unroped. This is contrary to all my rock climbing teaching & does not mean poor training, but only a strong-headedness.

Teaching is really a natural extension of one's practice--one wants to share something that's so influential and beautiful in one's life.

Suppose we were to teach creationism. What would be the content of the teaching? Merely that a creator formed the universe and all species of life ready-made? Nothing more? No details?

Plus, teaching brings home to you very fast that you actually know nothing. I didn't realize that before.

I think it likely that some of my pupils will reach unusual distinction.

There is all the difference in the world between teaching children about religion and handing them over to be taught by the religious.

If you never budge, don't expect a push.

The child is much more spiritually elevated than is usually supposed. He often suffers, not from too much work, but from work that is unworthy of him.

If your heart acquires strength, you will be able to remove blemishes from others without thinking evil of them.

The man (or woman) who can make hard things easy is the educator.

Arrogance, pedantry, and dogmatism...the occupational diseases of those who spend their lives directing the intellects of the young.