2,279 Quotes About Teaching

I had a wonderful teacher about animal behavior.

I was even accused of teaching the chimps how to fish for termites which I mean that would have been such a brilliant coup.

It was the final session of the Council, the most essential, in which the Pope [Paul VI] was to bestow upon all humanity the teachings of the Council. He announced this to me on that day with these words, ‘I am about to blow the seven trumpets of the Apocalypse.’

I'm a humble student of acting myself and part of that studentship is teaching.

It never ceases to amaze me that companies will spend thousands of hours and millions of dollars teaching people 'how to sell,' and not one minute or not $10 on 'why they buy.' And 'why they buy' is all that matters.

A lot of the teachings really kind of keep me grounded.

First let a man teach himself, and then he will be taught by others.

There is nothing more frightful than for a teacher to know only what his scholars are intended to know.

Is it any wonder that Socrates was outraged at the accusation he took money to teach? Even then, philosophers saw clearly the inevitable direction the professionalization of teaching would take, that of pre-empting the teaching function, which, in a healthy community, belongs to everyone.