2,279 Quotes About Teaching

If you want to learn a subject, teach it.

I have learned over the years that many formally educated corrosion professionals are either engineers or chemists by training. While those two groups represent the largest two categories of backgrounds in the oilfield corrosion control industry, they are in the minority.

The forward momentum of British educations cannot be resisted: a relentless fascist machine that will spit them out the other side as soldiers or sexless governors-general and the like. All he can do is plant some small seed of independent thought in their minds. He is sorry for them and what is coming: every rottenness and corruption.

A she-wolf teaches her cubs: "Bite like I do," and that's enough. A she-rabbit teaches her offspring: "Run like I do," and that's also enough. But a man teaches his children: "Think like I do," and that's a crime.

One of the most important parts of education is learning to get along with other people.

School exams are memory tests, in real-world no one is going to stop you from referring a book to solve a problem.

Jesus may give you eternal life, but until then, your ass going to stay right were it is until you do something about it.

Children learn best when they like their teacher and they think their teacher likes them.

You have to teach yourself to be free. They don't teach that in school.