2,279 Quotes About Teaching

Education teaches us how to make a living, not how to live.

I now know that I was in the presence of the only angels we are ever likely to make the acquaintance of: teachers blessed with the love of small people who are trying to find their place in the world.

But the purpose of a story is to teach and to please at once, and what it teaches is how to recognize the snares of the world.

I started to read The Best Christmas Pageant Ever aloud to Jarrod, reminding myself that sometimes the best you could do was help one kid.

They'll come a time - in fact many times - when all the tools & techniques will fail you or desert you. Then - at last - is the moment to trust, use & follow your heart

Don't just teach your students to read. • Teach them to question what they read, what they study. • Teach them to doubt. • Teach them to think. • Teach them to make mistakes and learn from them.• Teach them how to understand something.• Teach them how to teach others.

Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.

If you give up on your dreams, let that crush you and destroy you, even if just a little, if your children are watching. Otherwise, when you're telling them that they must pursue theirs, they will look at you and say "you didn't and you're doing just fine.

This irritated or puzzled such students of literature and their professors as were accustomed to ‘serious’ courses replete with ‘trends ’ and ‘schools ’ and ‘myths ’ and ‘symbols ’ and ‘social comment ’ and something unspeakably spooky called ‘climate of thought.’ Actually these ‘serious’ courses were quite easy ones with the students required to know not the books but about the books.