2,279 Quotes About Teaching

part of the art of teaching is the ability to rearrange the world for students - to force them to see things in a new way. i've known too many stupid intellectuals to believe that education and wisdom come as a package deal along with facts, it's your perspective that counts - your ability to see differently, not just to see a lot.

We need people who push boundaries rather than retreat inside them.

Give the pupils something to do, not something to learn; and the doing is of such a nature as to demand thinking; learning naturally results.

To know how to suggest is the art of teaching.

The word "education" comes from the root e from ex, out, and duco, I lead. It means a leading out. To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul.

Our children are only as brilliant as we allow them to be.

If you're a yoga teacher, I'm certain that your students will show up not for what your poses, your body, your practice looks like, not because you are the most innovative or brilliant or beautiful (though, I assure you, you are innovative, brilliant, and beautiful), but because you’re the only one who can teach like you, whose journey has led you exactly to this moment. And, I assure you, whatever you’ve got and whatever got you here—embrace it.We need your message.

If you want to use television to teach somebody, you must first teachthem how to use television.

... be radical about grace and relentless about truth and resolute about holiness...