Teach / Teaching - Quotes

Even while they teach, men learn. - Seneca

Good teaching is more a giving of right questions than a giving of right answers. - Josef Albers

Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theatre. Gail Goldwin

He who dares to teach must never cease to learn. - Richard Henry Dann

Housework is a breeze. Cooking is a pleasant diversion. Putting up a retaining wall is a lark. But teaching is like climbing a mountain. - Fawn M Brodie

I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think. - Socrates

I never teach my pupils, I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn. - Albert Einstein

I think the teaching profession contributes more to the future of our society than any other single profession. - John Wooden

I’m more interested in arousing enthusiasm in kids than in teaching the facts. The facts may change, but that enthusiasm for exploring the world will remain with them the rest of their lives. - Seymour Simon

I’ve been making a list of the things they don’t teach you at school. They don’t teach you how to love somebody. They don’t teach you how to be famous. They don’t teach you how to be rich or how to be poor. They don’t teach you how to walk away from someone you don’t love any longer. They don’t teach you how to know what’s going on in someone else’s mind. They don’t teach you what to say to someone who’s dying. They don’t teach you anything worth knowing. - Neil Gaiman

If a child cannot learn in the way we teach, we must teach in a way the child can learn. - Unknown

If you have forgotten how to be a child you cannot teach children. - Austin O’Malley

If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up people to collect wood and don’t assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea. - Antoine De Saint-Exupery

If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others. - Tryon Edwards

In learning you will teach, and in teaching you will learn. - Phil Collins

In teaching you cannot see the fruit of a day’s work. It is invisible and remains so, maybe for twenty years. - Jacques Barzun

It is better to teach a few things perfectly than many things indifferently. - Andre Maurois

Learning is finding out what you already know. Doing is demonstrating that you know it. Teaching is reminding others that they know just as well as you. You are all learners, doers, teachers. - Richard Bach

Life is amazing: and the teacher had better prepare himself to be a medium for that amazement. - Edward Blishen

More than half the work of teaching is that of helping the child to gain a full and clear expression of what it already knows imperfectly. It is to aid him to lift up into full sight, and to round out into plain and adequate sentences, the dim and fragmentary ideas and perceptions of childhood. - John Milton Gregory

Most of us end up with no more than five or six people who remember us. Teachers have thousands of people who remember them for the rest of their lives. - Andy Rooney

No man can instruct more than half-a-dozen students at once. The whole problem of education is one of its cost in money. - Henry Adams

No teaching is done well unless the pupil understands. Simple language is required for comprehension. Cloudy or vague expressions, ideas couched in unfamiliar terms, unclear thinking, are but obstacles in the way of learning. - Unknown

None can teach admirably if not loving his task. - Amos Bronson Alcott

One good teacher in a lifetime may sometimes change a delinquent into a solid citizen. - Philip Wylie

One repays a teacher badly if one remains always only a student. - Friedrich Nietzsche

People cited violation of the First Amendment when a New Jersey schoolteacher asserted that evolution and the Big Bang are not scientific and that Noah’s ark carried dinosaurs. This case is not about the need to separate church and state; it’s about the need to separate ignorant, scientifically illiterate people from the ranks of teachers. - Neil deGrasse Tyson

Since human beings are highly adaptable it may be possible for an individual with any sort of competence to learn, in the end, according to any teaching strategy. But the experiments show, very clearly indeed, that the rate, quality and durability of learning is crucially dependent upon whether or not the teaching strategy is of a sort that suits the individual. - Gordon Pask

Some of the world's best educators are grandparents. - Dr Charlie W. Shedd

Teacher appreciation makes the world of education go around. - Helen Peters

Teaching kids to count is fine, but teaching them what counts is best. - Bob Talber

Teaching is a calling too. And I’ve always thought that teachers in their way are holy – angels leading their flocks out of the darkness. - Jeannette Walls

Teaching is an art, not a science, principally because it involves human beings, their emotions and their values. - Gilbert Highet

Teaching is arousing and using the pupil's mind to form in it a desired conception of thought. - John Milton Gregory

Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition. - Jacques Barzun

Teaching is often thought of as something that comes rather naturally to people who know their subject. In general, it is thought that it is a simple process that produces simple outcomes, but ... it takes place in a complicated social institution, which is filled with diverse people. It is a fluid interplay of events. One cannot just know the subject and teach it, because the subjects themselves are ever changing. - M. H. Siddiqui

Teaching is one of the noblest of professions. It requires an adequate preparation and training, patience, devotion, and a deep sense of responsibility. Those who mould the human mind have wrought not for time, but for eternity. - Calvin Coolidge

Teaching is the only major occupation of man for which we have not yet developed tools that make an average person capable of competence and performance. In teaching we rely on the ‘naturals,’ the ones who somehow know how to teach.

Teaching should be full of ideas instead of stuffed with facts. - Unknown

The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery. - Mark Van Doren

The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without a teacher. - Elbert Hubbard

The problems in teaching are many. Teachers face some students who do not want to learn what they want to teach, some who already know it, or think they do, and some who are poorly prepared to study what is taught. They must figure out how to teach each student, while working with a class of students who are all different from one another. They must respond to the many authorities who tell them what to teach. They have a limited amount of time to teach what needs to be taught, and they are interrupted often. The litany is so familiar. Why is the work teachers must do to address these problems so difficult for others to appreciate? - Magdalene Lambert

The secret of teaching is to appear to have known all your life what you learned this afternoon. - Unknown

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 years teach much which the days never know. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is no better way to learn than to teach. - Benjamin Whichcote

There was really only one way to teach kids how to develop it: You give them something they can't do, they work hard until they find they can do it, and you just keep repeating the process. - Randy Pausch

Those who know, do. Those that understand, teach. - Aristotle

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 and vary the song. - Henri-Frederic Amiel

To teach a man how he may learn to grow independently, and for himself, is perhaps the greatest service that one man can do another. - Benjamin Jowett

To teach is to learn twice. - Joseph Joubert

To teach is to touch the heart and impel it to action. - Louis Sullivan

To waken interest and kindle enthusiasm is the sure way to teach easily and successfully. - Tryon Edwards

True teaching is not that which gives knowledge, but that which stimulates pupils to gain it. - John Milton Gregory

We can teach from our experience, but we cannot teach experience. - Sasha Azevedo

We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves. - Galileo Galilei

What I've learned about teaching is to refer back to the root of that word, which is educo, which means "to pull from." Education does not mean jamming information into somebody's head. Rather, it's that ancient idea that all knowledge is within us; to teach is to help somebody pull it out of themselves. - Alan Arkin

Whatever you want to teach, be brief. - Horac

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

Who dares to teach must never cease to learn. - John Cotton Dana

Years teach us more than books. - Berthold Auerbach

You can pay people to teach, But you can’t pay them to care. - Marva Collins

You can’t really teach a kid anything: you can only show him the way and motivate him to learn it himself. - Dave Cullen

You cannot teach a crab to walk straight. - Aristophenes