Teaching Quotes

I have my faults, but changing my tune is not one of them.

The one way the world hasn't changed: teaching is still the most important job.

Medical education is not just a program for building knowledge and skills in its recipients... it is also an experience which creates attitudes and expectations.

One can learn anything, anything at all, I thought, if provided by a gifted and passionate teacher.

If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it.

No one learns as much about a subject as one who is forced to teach it.

Wouldn't life be easier for both parents and infants if parents would observe, relax and enjoy what their child is doing, rather than keep teaching what the child is not yet capable of?

The best teacher is not the one who knows most but the one who is most capable of reducing knowledge to that simple compound of the obvious and wonderful.

Let my teaching fall like rain and my words descend like dew, like showers on new grass, like abundant rain on tender plants.

Teaching COBOL ought to be regarded as a criminal act.

We are all teachers, or should be. Anyone who relays experience to another person is a teacher. Not to transmit your experience is to betray it.

Teaching is a creative profession, not a delivery system. Great teachers do [pass on information], but what great teachers also do is mentor, stimulate, provoke, engage.

Today I see beauty everywhere I go, in every face I see, in every single soul, and sometimes even in myself.

Effective teaching may be the hardest job there is.

Shh. Listen to the sounds that surround you. Notice the pitches, the volume, the timbre, the many lines of counterpoint. As light taught Monet to paint, the earth may be teaching you music.

Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach.

I hate to see complacency prevail in our lives when it's so directly contrary to the teaching of Christ.

He dons are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything.

Once you have learned to ask questions - relevant and appropriate and substantial questions - you have learned how to learn and no one can keep you from learning whatever you want or need to know.

What's in a question, you ask? Everything. It is evoking stimulating response or stultifying inquiry. It is, in essence, the very core of teaching.

If thou wouldst seek justice, thyself must be just.

If you be a lover of instruction, you will be well instructed.

Teaching seems to me beyond doubt the greatest of the professions.

All must admit that the reception of the teachings of Christ results in the purest patriotism, in the most scrupulous fidelity to public trust, and in the best type of citizenship.

It's easier to throw sticks on the campfire than to try to restart it when it goes out.

It feels a little bit funny coming here and telling you guys that Linux and open source are the future of gaming. It's sort of like going to Rome and teaching Catholicism to the pope.

Leaders are more powerful role models when they learn than when they teach.

The first task in teaching for creativity in any field is to encourage people to believe in their creative potential and to nurture the confidence to try.

Experience fails to teach where there is no desire to learn.

Begin challenging your own assumptions. Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in awhile, or the light won't come in.

Every good educator knows that true teaching is to teach kids how to ask the right questions.

In 100 years we have gone from teaching Latin and Greek in High School to teaching remedial English in college.

By the miracle of teaching, I can give you some of my ability, without losing any of it myself.

From all kinds of flowers, Seek teachings everywhere, Like a deer that finds A quiet place to graze, Seek Seclusion to digest All you have gathered. . .

Making disciples isn’t about gathering pupils to listen to your teaching. The real focus is not on teaching people at all–the focus is on loving them.

If a man is to shed the light of the sun upon other men, he must first of all have it within himself.

All of us do not have equal talent, but all of us should have an equal opportunity to develop our talent.

He who influences the thought of his times, influences all the times that follow. He has made his impress on eternity.

By teaching others you will learn yourself.

Cramming seeks to stamp things in by intense application immediately before the ordeal. But a thing thus learned can form but few associations.

I'm merely teaching you to be someone of pride and to be a good leader and that's the message I want you to take away from my music.

It matters not the subject taught, nor all the books on all the shelves, What matters most, yes most of all, is what the teachers are themselves.

Teaching is the ability to inspire learning.

I began my education at a very early age; in fact, right after I left college.

the fundamental purpose of school is learning, not teaching.

The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot.

I am a part of all whom I have met.

You cannot honour the prophet by dishonouring his teaching.

If our American way of life fails the child, it fails us all.

Teaching vocabulary lists is inefficient - the time is better spent reading alone.