2,279 Quotes About Teaching

Good teaching is like a vehicle that runs on four wheels of conceptual efficacy, instinctual guidance, imagination and innovation.

It’s not your job to teach me. It is my job to learn from you.

There’s something flabby about teaching in a place like this,” He said. “If you don’t have to exert yourself once in a while, you begin–or at least I do–to feel like a headwaiter leading people to the second-best table.

Teaching is an art that can be learned; learning from a teacher is an art that can be learned; anyone who tries--and we all try--can gain a certain competence in teaching; but a real teacher, now---he has a talent.He has a gift like a fine artist or musician or sculptor. Oh, we think highly of teachers, and of teaching. Teaching is part of loving, you know

Three kinds of people achieve illumination: those who learn, those who teach, and those who do both continuously.

A real teacher brings out potentials and a good teacher teaches you potential.

Bright and well-behaved students can be taught anywhere and by anyone, but real success is when a teacher is able to engage the naughtiest and the least interested student unconditionally in the classroom.

When children like a subject, it has something to do with that teacher who taught them to use invisible binoculars in order to look at concepts that are a long way away.

I have bemoaned people who say they feel old, but I now realize it is perfectly possible for anyone to feel old. All they need to do is become a teacher.