2,279 Quotes About Teaching

Learning is not the product of teaching.

For the children and youth in poverty from diverse cultural backgrounds who attend urban schools, having effective teachers is a matter of life and death. These children have no life options for achieving decent lives other than by experiencing success in school … Because it generates extremely high levels of emotional intensity, it [teaching in an urban school system] is more akin to being an air traffic controller than being a ‘schoolteacher’.

A child should be educated, not to earn a living, but to build a world.

I look around at all these teachers, that fed us a narrative that we could be whatever we wanted to be, that we could achieve whatever we dreamed of. That was a load of nonsense. Why didn't they teach us how to cope with heartbreak and disillusionment rather than Pythagoras and the periodic table?

Experience is a master teacher, even when it’s not our own.

You can never make someone like something they don't like, but you can always help them to better understand it.

A kid is what you feed it,plus from that what can be gathered.

When you educate a person, you save a family.

You cannot know what I do not tell you, yet you will be judged harshly for not knowing.