TEACHING QUOTES
quotations about teaching
|
|
There is no better way to learn than to teach.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE, Moral and Religious Aphorisms
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 mold the human mind have wrought not for time, but for eternity.
CALVIN COOLIDGE, speech, Jul. 4, 1924
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, The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard
Great knowledge is requisite to instruct those who have been well instructed, but still greater knowledge is requisite to instruct those who have been neglected.
History is philosophy teaching by examples.
THUCYDIDES, The History of the Peloponnesian War
Some of the world's best educators are grandparents.
DR. CHARLIE W. SHEDD, as quoted in Just Grandparents
The key to fixing education is better teaching, and the key to better teaching is figuring out who can teach and who can't.
JONATHAN ALTER, Newsweek, Jun. 15, 2009
No man is so learned but he may be taught; neither is any one so illiterate but he may teach.
WILLIAM SCOTT DOWNEY, Proverbs
A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn, is hammering on cold iron.
If you have forgotten how to be a child you cannot teach children.
AUSTIN O'MALLEY, Keystones of Thought
Year after year students tumble along like the waters of a river. They flow away, and only the teacher is left behind, like some deeply buried rock at the bottom of the current.
KOBO ABE, The Woman in the Dunes
We never completely escape the teachers of our childhood nor any of the patterns that formed us.
FRANK HERBERT, Heretics of Dune
None can teach admirably if not loving his task.
AMOS BRONSON ALCOTT, Table Talk
- The world of knowledge takes a crazy turn
- When teachers themselves are taught to learn.
BERTOLT BRECHT, Life of Galileo
First let a man teach himself, and then he will be taught by others.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE, The Maxims and Reflections of Goethe
|
|
|
