2,279 Quotes About Teaching

Time teaches all things to him who lives forever but I have not the luxury of eternity.

In a classroom, when it’s silent, they’re thinking. You’ve got to give them time to think.

Everyone thinks it goes smoothly in everyone else’s house, and theirs is the only place that has problems. I’ll let you in on a secret about teaching: there is no place in the world where it rolls along smoothly without problems. Only in articles and books can that happen.

An essential part of teachingis to show how to enjoy learning.

To fit the individual to live and to function in the institutional life of his day.

Life in the Kingdom of God is accepting and knowing Jesus Christ, it is studying and applyingHis teachings to your life.

One of the hardest things for a teacher is to know when to keep quiet and when to let go. It is a terrible thing to hold someone back from success, or to insist on sharing credit, or to tie someone to your apron strings. We need to have faith that we have done all we can, and then we need to kick our birds out of the nest.

I do not teach students anything. I learn along with them.

There is no higher calling than service to your fellow man, and to do so through your own personal mastery of a craft is a gift enjoyed by few. Cultivate this gift, and give it away.