2,279 Quotes About Teaching

Leo Strauss's discoveries in the history of political philosophy had the effect of liberating his students from the yoke of contemporary thought.

You best teach others about healthy boundaries by enforcing yours on them.

I don’t argue with fools; I educate.

Your perspectives change your realities.

I’m not so sure that the adult within me teaches the child within me. Rather, I think that the child does most of the educating.

A book can be read to you, not for you.

There is this common notion that people are shallow and ignorant until they go out and see the world. I, on the other hand, went out and in comparison realized I was in pretty good standing.

I love this idea of the states being this laboratory of democracy where we try things out in one state, and if it works, we take it someplace else…But if you’re going to do that, you actually have to take what those successful states did. Not just a piece of it. All the hard parts.(from The Economist article “The reading wars” 6/12/2021)

We are oversupplied with people and books that make us know more, but are undersupplied with those that make us think and live better.