2,279 Quotes About Teaching

What we want for others doesn't work unless they want it for themselves.

A person at peace can immediately recognize a consciousness in crisis, whereas those in crisis cannot fully understand themselves or others.

I thought about being a teacher for three thousand years. It wouldn’t have made my Top Ten Things to Wish For list.

If teaching is reduced to mere data transmission, if there is no sharing or excitement and wonder, if teachers themselves are passive recipients of information and not creators of new ideas, what hope is there for their students?

Never follow any impulse to teach, however strong it might be. The command to teach is not felt as an impulsion.

One can pass on knowledge but not wisdom. One can find wisdom, one can live it, one can be supported by it, one can work wonders with it, but one cannot speak it or teach it.

because Mr. Applebaum, who is ostensibly teaching us precalculus but is mostly teaching me that pain and suffering must be endured stoically, says, "You feel what, Tiny?".

We teachers break our bodies to give you a shirt that you will wear in the future, to conferences, to presidential speeches, to autograph signings. That is up to you and if you can do that for at least in a little thank to us. Then thank you, thank you all.

I'm the scratchy stuff on the side of the matchbox. But that's fine with me. I don't mind at all. Better to be a first-class matchbox than a second-class match.