2,279 Quotes About Teaching

If you read philosophical texts of the tradition, you'll notice they almost never said 'I,' and didn't speak in the first person. From Aristotle to Heidegger, they try to consider their own lives as something marginal or accidental. What was essential was their teaching and their thinking. Biography is something empirical and outside, and is considered an accident that isn't necessarily or essentially linked to the philosophical activity or system.

If a person wants to be publicly gay, they should not be teaching in the public schools.

We don't teach kids how to feel, we don't give them the words to go by.

The development occurs through reciprocal give-and-take, the teacher taking but not being afraid also to give.

As formal teaching and training grow in extent, there is the danger of creating an undesirable split between the experience gained in more direct associations and what is acquired in school. This danger was never greater than at the present time, on account of the rapid growth in the last few centuries of knowledge and technical modes of skill.

To be interested is to be absorbed in, wrapped up in, carried away by, some object. To take an interest is to be on the alert, to care about, to be attentive.

I do not think that any thorough-going modification of college curriculum would be possible without a modification of the methods of instruction.

As societies become more complex in structure and resources, the need of formal or intentional teaching and learning increases.

Too rarely is the individual teacher so free from the dictation of authoritative supervisor, textbook on methods, prescribed course of study, etc., that he can let his mind come to close quarters with the pupil's mind and the subject matter.