2,279 Quotes About Teaching

The drive to learn is as strong as the sexual drive. It begins earlier and lasts longer

I was teaching myself notes from three and then by seven I'd figured out how to play some chords, and at school I used to love writing poems and poetry, so I guess I kind of put two and two together and that formed my songwriting from an early age.

I started playing the piano from the age of three and I started teaching myself; we always had a piano round the house.

I do not believe that God has imposed suffering upon anyone to punish them or to teach them a lesson.

We never completely escape the teachers of our childhood nor any of the patterns that formed us.

Those who would repeat the past must control the teaching of history.

Philosophy is the history of philosophy.

Rulers, Statesmen, Nations, are wont to be emphatically commended to the teaching which experience offers in history. But what experience and history teach is this - that people and governments never have learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it. Each period is involved in such peculiar circumstances, exhibits a condition of things so strictly idiosyncratic, that its conduct must be regulated by considerations connected with itself, and itself alone.

A teacher must believe in the value and interest of his subject as a doctor believes in health.