155 Teaching Quotes

The best book on programming for the layman is 'Alice in Wonderland'; but that's because it's the best book on anything for the layman.

All I did was sit on the riverbank handing out river water. After I'm gone, I trust you will notice the river.

An instructor should exemplify the things he seeks to teach. It will be of great advantage if you yourself can do all you ask of your students and more.

The people of your world became so stupid and rude that my companions and I no longer enjoyed teaching them. You must surely have heard of us: we were called oracles, nymphs, spirits, fairies, household gods, lemures, larvas, lamias, sprites, water-nymphs, incubi, shades, spirits of the dead, specters and ghosts.

It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn.

The central task of education is to implant a will and facility for learning; it should produce not learned but learning people. The truly human society is a learning society, where grandparents, parents, and children are students together.

The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.

I thought it would be lovely to use [pet bulldog] Noelle as an example to teach the importance of being who you are. For me it's important to inspire children in a positive way, and at times they understand more messages through entertainment than when one is talking to them directly.

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

The truth is, when all is said and done, one does not teach a subject, one teaches a student how to learn it.

The ideal college is Mark Hopkins on one end of a log and a student on the other.

I have come to believe ... that the stage may do more than teach, that much of our current moral instruction will not endure the test of being cast into a lifelike mold, and when presented in dramatic form will reveal itself as platitudinous and effete. That which may have sounded like righteous teaching when it was remote and wordy, will be challenged afresh when it is obliged to simulate life itself.

Since I was 18 years old, I have taught the Bible. For the last fifteen or twenty years, I have taught every Sunday when I was home or near my own house, so that would be 35 or 40 times per year. Half of those Sundays, the text comes from the Hebrew Bible. I have had a deep personal interest in the Holy Land and in the teachings of the Hebrew people. God has a special position for the Jewish people, the Hebrews, or whatever. I know the difference between ancient Israel and Judaea, and I know the history. I don't have any problem with the Jewish people.

Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality. I have been for many years a teacher of languages. It is an occupation which at length becomes fatal to whatever share of imagination, observation, and insight an ordinary person may be heir to. To a teacher of languages there comes a time when the world is but a place of many words and man appears a mere talking animal not much more wonderful than a parrot.

To teach is to learn twice.

If I don't have wisdom, I can teach you only ignorance.

I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.

Man's most human characteristic is not his ability to learn, which he shares with many other species, but his ability to teach and store what others have developed and taught him.

It's really important for me to get across to our fans that whenever I put myself in different circumstances. It is to learn from it so I can relay it to others.

The Socratic manner is not a game at which two can play.

Example is always more efficacious than precept.

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

Our school systems teach our children that they are nothing but glorified apes who have evolutionized out of some primordial soup of mud, by teaching evolution as fact.

Teachers who offer you the ultimate answers do not possess the ultimate answers, for if they did, they would know that the ultimate answers cannot be given, they can only be received.

A schoolmaster should have an atmosphere of awe, and walk wonderingly, as if he was amazed at being himself.

The teachers are everywhere. What is wanted is a learner.

A teacher's major contribution may pop out anonymously in the life of some ex-student's grandchild. A teacher, finally, has nothing to go on but faith, a student nothing to offer in return but testimony.

Only the stupid and the phlegmatic should teach.

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.

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

The great moral teachers of humanity were, in a way, artistic geniuses in the art of living.

You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat.

There is no real teacher who in practise does not believe in the existence of the soul, or in a magic that acts on it through speech.

Any teacher that can be replaced by a machine should be!

'Creative activity could be described as a type of learning process where teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.'

A word as to the education of the heart. We don't believe that this can be imparted through books; it can only be imparted through the loving touch of the teacher.

You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him to find it for himself.

You've got to save your own soul first, and then the souls of your neighbors if they will let you; and for that reason you must cultivate, not a spirit of criticism, but the talents that attract people to the hearing of the Word.

Education is what remains when we have forgotten all that we have been taught.

The sight of a drunkard is a better sermon against that vice than the best that was ever preached on that subject.

The vanity of teaching doth oft tempt a man to forget that he is a blockhead.

A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.

It is a trite but true observation, that examples work more forcibly on the mind than precepts.

First, I tell them what I am going to tell them, then I tell them, then I tell them what I told them.

A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering cold iron.

Teachers teach because they care. Teaching young people is what they do best. It requires long hours, patience, and care.

Teaching isn't one-tenth as effective as training.

I taught them everything they know, but not everything I know.

You can't teach others if you are living the same way.

Of right and wrong he taught Truths as refined as ever Athens heard; And (strange to tell!) he practised what he preached.

Nature's lay idiot, I taught thee to love.

Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent.

A good guide will take you through the more important streets more often than he takes you down side streets; a bad guide will do the opposite. In philosophy I'm a rather bad guide.

310. A pupil and a teacher. The pupil will not let anything be explained to him, for he continually interrupts with doubts, for instance as to the existence of things, the meaning for words, etc. The teacher says 'Stop interrupting me and do as I tell you. So far your doubts don't make sense at all.'

A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.

'Late Shri. Cakyar, was not just a skilled exponent and a capable teacher of Kutiyattam, his wisdom and depth of knowledge made him worthy of the title 'Acharya' ' - Dr. Prem Lata Sharma (noted Hindi writer and scholar of Indian arts and literature)[15]

No one is born hating another person because of the colour of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.

Teaching is for teachers, not students... and if you'd known that when you were at school, all of your suffering would have been at least explicable.

Film composing is a splendid discipline, and I recommend a course of it to all composition teachers whose pupils are apt to be dawdling in their ideas, or whose every bar is sacred and must not be cut or altered.

I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I teach in order to learn.

We can only instill principles, put the student in the right path, give him method, teach him how to study, and early to discern between essentials and non-essentials.

The hidden significance of these fables which is sometimes thought to have been detected, the ethics running parallel to the poetry and history, are not so remarkable as the readiness with which they may be made to express a variety of truths. As if they were the skeletons of still older and more universal truths than any whose flesh and blood they are for the time made to wear. It is like striving to make the sun, or the wind, or the sea symbols to signify exclusively the particular thoughts of our day. But what signifies it? In the mythus a superhuman intelligence uses the unconscious thoughts and dreams of men as its hieroglyphics to address men unborn. In the history of the human mind, these glowing and ruddy fables precede the noonday thoughts of men, as Aurora the sun's rays. The matutine intellect of the poet, keeping in advance of the glare of philosophy, always dwells in this auroral atmosphere.