2,279 Quotes About Teaching

Let such teach others who themselves excel

Questions are for the benefit of every student, not just the one raising his hand.

I cannot waste my time teaching mediocrity," to J. Henry Harper, when he quit teaching an open-to-all illustrating class at Drexel Institute... from Where Your Heart Is...The Story of Harvey Dunn, Artist. page 32.

I favor weapons of mass instruction.

But don’t you know, Mr. Stoner?” Sloane asked. “Don’t you understand about yourself yet? You’re going to be a teacher.” Suddenly Sloane seemed very distant, and the walls of the office receded. Stoner felt himself suspended in the wide air, and he heard his voice ask, “Are you sure?” “I’m sure,” Sloane said softly. “How can you tell? How can you be sure?” “It’s love, Mr. Stoner,” Sloane said cheerfully. “You are in love. It’s as simple as that.

It's like she's pulling Post-it notes out of her hair and lecturing from them, one of my peers once complained about the teaching style of my beloved teacher Mary Ann Caws. ...Ditto Eileen Myles, who tells a great story about a student at UC San Diego once complaining that her lecturing style was like 'throwing a pizza at us.' My feeling is, you should be so lucky to get a pizza in the face from Eileen Myles, or a Post-it note plucked from the nest of Mary Ann Caws's hair.

The best teaching can be done only when there is a direct individual relationship between a student and a good teacher—a situation in which the student discusses the ideas, thinks about the things, and talks aboutthe things. It’s impossible to learn very much by simply sitting in a lecture, or even by simply doing problems that are assigned.

ভাই আবেদ, তুমি তো জানো বারো বছর মাস্টারি করলে মানুষ গাধা হয়ে যায়। আমার পঁচিশ বছর চলছে।

If you numb pain you might ignore one of our greatest teachers. As a result, another message can be lost in translation.