2,279 Quotes About Teaching

What's in a question, you ask? Everything. It is evoking stimulating response or stultifying inquiry. It is, in essence, the very core of teaching.

All learning begins when our comfortable ideas turn out to be inadequate.

Not only does social life demand teaching and learning for its own permanence, but the very process of living together educates. It enlarges and enlightens experience; it stimulates and enriches imagination; it creates responsibility for accuracy and vividness of statement and thought.

It is useless to deny that, unless one has a genius for imparting knowledge, teaching is a drudgery.

I've always thought that very few people grow old as admirably as academics. At least books never let them down.

Every enterprise is learning and teaching institution. Training and development must be built into it on all levels, training and development that never stop.

Teaching 23-year-olds in an MBA programme strikes me as largely a waste of time. They lack the background of experience. You can teach them skills - accounting and what have you - but you can't teach them management.

We spend a lot of time teaching leaders what to do. We don't spend enough time teaching leaders what to stop. Half the leaders I have met don't need to learn what to do. They need to learn what to stop

Our souls are evolving towards becoming the one. That's what we're doing and we're using our incarnations as teaching devices.