Quotation About Teaching

For Teacher and Teaching I never teach my pupils. I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn. Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955) Experience teaches only the teachable. Aldous Huxley (1894 - 1963) The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. Amos Bronson Alcott (1799 - 1888)The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards. Anatole France (1844 - 1924), The Crime of Sylvestre BonnardPassive acceptance of the teacher's wisdom is easy to most boys and girls. It involves no effort of independent thought, and seems rational because the teacher knows more than his pupils; it is moreover the way to win the favour of the teacher unless he is a very exceptional man. Yet the habit of passive acceptance is a disastrous one in later life. It causes man to seek and to accept a leader, and to accept as a leader whoever is established in that position. Bertrand Russell Teachers open the door. You enter by yourself. Chinese Proverb Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater. Gail Godwin He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches. George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), Man and Superman (1903) "Maxims for Revolutionists" Teaching is not a lost art, but regard for teaching is a lost tradition. Jacques Barzun If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others. Tryon Edwards “An attitude of positive expectation is the mark of the superior personality.”
― Brian Tracy “We never know which lives we influence, or when, or why.”
― Stephen King, 11/22/63 “Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased.”
― Jiddu Krishnamurti “Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.” ― Plato, The Republic “If thou wouldst seek justice, thyself must be just. ”
― Stephen R. Lawhead, Hood “Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.”
― Oscar Wilde “To know how to suggest is the art of teaching.”
― Henri-Frédéric Amiel “My words itch at your ears till you understand them”
― Walt Whitman, Song of Myself “When you wish to instruct, be brief; that men's [children's] minds take in quickly what you say, learn its lesson, and retain it faithfully. Every word that is unnecessary only pours over the side of a brimming mind.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero “Teaching is only demonstrating that it is possible. Learning is making it possible for yourself.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Pilgrimage “The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of the mind for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.”
― Anatole France “The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence.”
― Amos Bronson Alcott A teacher affects eternity: he can never tell where his influence stops.
Henry Adams What nobler employment, or more valuable to the state, than that of the man who instructs the rising generation.
Marcus Tullius Cicero The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn.
John Lubbock Those who educate children well are more to be honored than parents, for these only gave life, those the art of living well.
Aristotle
What office is there which involves more responsibility, which requires more qualifications, and which ought, therefore, to be more honorable than teaching?
Harriet Martineau By learning you will teach; by teaching you will understand.
Latin Proverb Education is the mother of leadership.
Wendell L. Willkie Seldom was any knowledge given to keep, but to impart; the grace of this rich jewel is lost in concealment.
Bishop Hall If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
Tryon Edwards We cannot hold a torch to light another's path without brightening our own.
Ben Sweetland Grammar speaks; dialectics teach us truth; rhetoric gives colouring to our speech; music sings; arithmetic numbers; geometry weighs and measures; astronomy teaches us to know the stars.
Latin Maxim To know how to suggest is the great art of teaching.
Henri Frederic Amiel We learn by teaching.
James Howell Natural ability is by far the best, but many men have succeeded in winning high renown by skill that is the fruit of teaching.
Pindar
It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.
Albert Einstein The most effective teacher will always be biased, for the chief force in teaching is confidence and enthusiasm.
Joyce Cary It is a luxury to learn; but the luxury of learning is not to be compared with the luxury of teaching.
Roswell D. Hitchcock Education is the guardian genius of democracy.
It is the only dictator that free men recognize, and the only ruler that free men require.
Mirabeau Buonaparte Lamar Whatever you want to teach, be brief.
Horace
To me, education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul.
Muriel Spark Nine-tenths of education is encouragement.
Anatole France The true aim of every one who aspires to be a teacher should be, not to impart his own opinions, but to kindle minds.
F. W. Robertson He that teaches us anything which we knew not before is undoubtedly to be reverenced as a master.
Samuel Johnson I hear and I forget. I see and I remember.
I do and I understand.
Chinese Proverb
From Teaching Quotations at Parrot's Meow Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant.
Epictetus
I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.
Alexander of Macedon To know how to suggest is the great art of teaching. To attain it we must be able to guess what will interest: we must learn to read the childish soul as we might a piece of music. Then, by simply changing the key, we keep up the attraction anil vary the song.
Henri Frederic Amiel Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.
Jacques Barzun Education is the transmission of civilization.
Will Durant To teach is to learn twice over.
Joseph Joubert A schoolmaster should have an atmosphere of awe, and walk wonderingly, as if he was amazed at being himself.
Newton D. Baker One good teacher in a lifetime may sometimes change a delinquent into a solid citizen.
Philip Wylie A child miseducated is a child lost.
John F. Kennedy A master can tell you what he expects of you.
A teacher, though, awakens your own expectations.
Patricia Neal