2,279 Quotes About Teaching

There is no smarter professor than life, and no wiser sage than experience.

We are more than role models for our students; we are leaders and teachers of both an academic curriculum and a social curriculum.

When all the teachers are gone, who will be your teacher?The student replied: “Everything!Kobun, paused, then said: “No, you".

So much of teaching is sharing. Learning results in sharing, sharing results in change, change is learning. The only other job with so much sharing is parenting. That's probably why the two are so often confused.

One cannot always know what children are thinking. Children are hard to understand, especially when careful training has accustomed them to obedience, and experience has made them cautious in their conversation with their teachers. Will you not draw from this the fine maxim that one should not scold children too much, but should make them trustful, so that they will not conceal their stupidities from us?

If we are teaching children how to lie,to steal, and to be aggressive, why do schools punish those who lie and steal? and why does the society punish the offender criminal?

The passion to teach, to share deeplyexperienced “lessons from life,” is embedded in all literature.

Real education happens only by failing, changing, challenging, and adjusting. All of those gerunds apply to teachers as well as students. No person is an “educator,” because education is not something one person does to another. Education is an imprecise process, a dance, and a collaborative experience.

Sometimes a little song is sweet to hear, even if the orchestra is more accomplished