2,279 Quotes About Teaching

What's next? Shall we appoint elephants to teach zoology?

You cannot, by all the lecturing in the world, enable a man to make a shoe.

Lectures were once useful; but now when all can read, and books are so numerous, lectures are unnecessary.

I never took any kind of vocal lessons or teachings of how to - I never even took piano lessons. And a voice just came to me and said, go play the piano in the church...

If you don’t find a way to love a flawed person, secretly you’re teaching yourself that you are not lovable because of your flaws.

The bulk of mankind are schoolboys through life.

Cramming seeks to stamp things in by intense application immediately before the ordeal. But a thing thus learned can form but few associations.

Ingenuity in meeting and pursuing the pupil, that tact for the concrete situation, though they are the alpha and omega of the teacher's art, are things to which psychology cannot help us in the least.

The teachers of this country, one may say, have its future in their hands.