Teaching Quotes
Pedagogy, like language itself, can either liberate or imprison ideas, inspire of suffocate constructive thinking.
I think it must be apparent to every thinking mind that the noblest of all professions is that of teaching, and that upon the effectiveness of that teaching hangs the destiny of nations.
The major difference between the 'best' and the 'average' is that the 'best' get as much pleasure from practice as performance.
Any school for free citizens must begin by teaching distrust, not trust. It must teach questioning, not acceptance of stock answers.
That's what teaching is, the art of explanation: presenting the right information in the right order in a memorable way.
The most important outcome of education is to help students become independent of formal education.
Education begins at home. You can't blame the school for not putting into your child what you don't put into him.
These days people seek knowledge, not wisdom. Knowledge is of the past, wisdom is of the future.
We cannot silence the voices that we do not like hearing. We can, however, do everything in our power to make certain that other voices are heard.
I have been maturing as a teacher. New experiences bring new sensitivities and flexibility.
Much that passes for education is not education at all but ritual. The fact is that we are being educated when we know it least.
The idea of human rights as a fundamental principle can be seen to underlie throughout Islamic teachings.
The trouble with Islam is deeply rooted in its teachings. Islam is not only a religion. Islam (is) also a political ideology that preaches violence and applies its agenda by force.
A prudent person profits from personal experience, a wise one from the experience of others.
Good coaching may be defined as the development of character, personality and habits of players, plus the teaching of fundamentals and team play.
The object of teaching a child is to enable the child to get along without the teacher. We need to educate our children for their future, not our past.
Effective teaching involves explaining to our children what they're already observing in our lives by example.
There are things in the Old Book which I may not be able to explain, but I fully accept it as the infallible Word of God, and receive its teachings as inspired by the Holy Spirit.
Those who know about education have no power; those who have the power know little or nothing about education.
The scramble to get into college is going to be so terrible in the next few years that students are going to put up with almost anything, even an education.
A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.
I regard the principle of conscription of life as a flat contradiction of all our cherished ideals of individual freedom, democratic liberty and Christian teaching.
Genius is the ability to independently arrive at and understand concepts that would normally have to be taught by another person.
There are times when you may be overwhelmed by the teachings of the Way. At such moments, it is important to continue with the original spirit of a beginner.
Words are not truth. Truth is like the moon, and words are like my finger. I can point to the moon with my finger, but my finger is not the moon. Do you need my finger to see the moon?
Long is the night for the sleepless. Long is the road for the weary. Long is samsara (the cycle of continued rebirth) for the foolish, who have not recognised the true teaching.
Teaching which ignores the realities of children will be rejected as surely as any graft which attempts to ignore the body's immune system.
The purpose of adult education is to help them to learn, not to teach them all you know and thus stop them from learning.
To be a teacher you must be a prophet - because you are trying to prepare people for a world thirty to fifty years into the future.
Teachers must learn how to teach ... they need only to be taught more effective ways of teaching.
The successful teacher is no longer on a height, pumping knowledge at high pressure into passive receptacles.
Success in life comes to those who simply refuse to give up; individuals with vision so strong that obstacles, failure and loss only act as teachings
Koranic teaching still insists that the sun moves around the earth. How can we advance when they teach things like that?
